Copyright (C) 2006 by William Mistele. All rights reserved.

Note: I have added several new sections to this essay. It now includes sections on the four
elements within the body and within nature. I have also added new comments on the sphere
of Saturn and a brief description of the sphere of Uranus.

The Planetary Spheres

Introduction

In this essay, I explore the akasha—the realm of light--surrounding nine different planetary
spheres. This is slightly different for me in that I usually first and foremost work with a spirit.
In this case, however, I am seeking a more personal understanding of the qualities of the
different planets. It is a getting acquainted exercise.

Note: This essay is similar to my series on the Presence of God. I imagine if the Apostle Paul
was right, God is someone “in whom we live, move, and have our being,” then each planet’s
aura is a kind of outer reflection of God’s aura. Simply meditating in the akasha of different
planets, then, not only clarifies and defines the nature of the spiritual beings that dwell there.
Studying a planet’s akasha also tells you something about the mind and soul of the Creator--the
way studying in a class taught by a world level economist, philosopher, or general tells you
something about the individual’s mind and outlook on life.
In this brief essay, I spent about two hours meditating in each of the different planetary
spheres, so about four to six hours a day over five different days. What motivated this little
venture was I needed some clarification as to what method and perspective I should use to
solve two sets of problems. One solution was more personal in nature—I decided to spend
some time working with Nith-Haiah of the Mercury sphere, “the Guardian angel” of all
magicians on earth according to Bardon.
The second question deals with karma and political evolution. I wanted to double check my
perspective and a get a little reassurance before proceeding. In other words, I wanted a stamp
of approval from Divine Providence before exercising my magical will. Self-validation is
always a highly questionable activity; then again, when using cosmic power you do not seek a
second opinion from other people. You are required to go directly to the source and with
every ounce of intelligence your brain possesses you have to weigh and measure, draw your
own conclusions, and then take full responsibility for your actions.

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The Four Elements in Physical Body

Earth

This is the place where we begin and to which we return. The body is both the temple of God
and the magic mirror that reflects the universe. Working with other planes of awareness, not to
mention spirits, takes energy and the body is the source of that energy. In fact, there is nothing
to be encountered “out there” in the highways and byways of the four elemental realms that is
not already present in latent form within each of us.
Having done some preliminary stretching/yoga I focus on the four elements within my body.
The bones of the skeleton and physical mass of the body is like the earth element. I sense the
obvious: the solidity, stability, and enduring presence. The body is framed upon the bones and
tendons.
 Part of my physical being is silent and solid and enduring—a perfect embodiment of the
mystery and initiation of silence and all the spiritual qualities of earth. So it is natural for me to
sense how the vibration in my body is almost identical to the vibration within that five
thousand year old stone circle I wrote about that is in Scotland. The pyramids of Egypt, ancient
and forgotten temples, mountains and minerals, geologic strata—the presence of what endures
down through the ages—all of these sensations and qualities of the earth element are right
here.
There is a little crater near my house—Koko Crater. It is no more than a few thousand years
old. This crater will still be around long after I am dead. This island is no more than five
million years old. But the solidity I sense within my body—the weight and mass—is an
awareness that goes back to the Vishnu schist at the bottom of the Grand Canyon—a billion
years old. It goes further—it goes back four billion years to when the planet first formed.
The body is ancient and beyond the knowledge of all religions on earth. In every glass of
water we drink, in every breath of air we take in hydrogen atoms that were formed soon after
the Big Bang thirteen billion years ago. The elements in our bodies, for example oxygen and
carbon, we formed in the nuclear furnaces and through the explosions of stars.
If we were to proceed into the astral/etheric realm of the earth element wherein gnomes
dwell, we would certainly want to feel comfortable in advance with doing what gnomes do—
they place their minds directly within physical matter to sense its qualities and influence its
vibrations. The vibration of zinc, tin, gold, silver, lead, precious jewels, trees, and plants—
gnomes can spend hours on end immersed within the vibrations of matter the way dolphins
can swim in the waves or eagles can ride the winds.
Each day our consciousness passes through alpha, beta, theta, and delta states of awareness
as when our minds are open, problem solving, falling asleep, and in a state of deep, dreamless
sleep. Penetrating and encompassing physical matter with our awareness is very similar to
being fully alert and awake in a state of deep dreamless sleep. Our bodies contain such
knowledge. We just need to learn to sense it.
When dealing with the unknown it is wise to move slowly, systematically, and from the
familiar to the unfamiliar, from what you can fully control to what is new and what challenges
you with forces that are outside your grasp. It is a gradual process.
Some people want quick results in magic. Why can I not control my thoughts? Why can I
not evoke spirits? Many of the higher spirits are quite capable of materializing and
dematerializing matter. For these spirits it is nothing to penetrate physical matter with their
consciousness, take hold of it, and transmute it at will.
Physical matter contains great energy. Matter is dynamic, powerful, and intense. But all of
this is wrapped about in a quiet grace, a silence, and an immense stillness. When God says,
“Be still and know that I am God,” he is not referring to water, air, or fire. He is pointing to the
gate hidden within the element of earth with its quiet, silent stillness.
Meditating on physical being, the personal fades. You remain aware of the physical and yet
in a place of great stillness you move beyond time and space and pass through the gate that
leads into akasha and the Divine Presence. Like I say---the body is a temple. Herein are
taught the divine arts of creation.

Water

The sensation of water I can pick up from the flow of blood through my body. A doctor told
me that some people can feel when there heart skips a beat. With experience, you can feel
blood flow into part of your body when you relax it. The blood vessels dilate with the result
that there is more blood flow into the area and it becomes warmer.
Some people can sense the pulse of their blood as it surges through the body. It is the
liquid, flowing quality of the blood that is emphatically the water element. Water is in tears,
sweat, salvia, urine, moisture in the lungs, the eyes, and various body fluids.
 As I concentrate on the flow of blood, immersing myself in this sensation and awareness,
there are also feelings that arise: a sense of peace, of flowing and letting go. It is purifying,
renewing, nurturing, and reviving.
Within water is also a more subtle presence called the magnetic fluid. It is like the flow of
blood produces a magnetic field in and around the body. If you can sense or feel auras, you
can probably pick this up as well.
Well, here is what I sense of the magnetic fluid in and around my body. It is cool, soothing,
and healing. It is nearly incomprehensible receptive—though completely nurturing and life
giving, it is also utterly open and empty. It is so encompassing, it can embrace, shelter, and
protect anything.
As men are granted a token surcharge of the masculine electric fluid by virtue of their gender,
women have a surcharge of the magnetic fluid. It is seen for example in a woman’s ovaries
which embody a powerful attracting energy.
As I mention elsewhere, some martial art masters like to marry young, nubile women
because the woman’s powerful estrogen based magnetic field automatically draws the energy
in his head and arms downward along the front of his body. This feminine essence, yin jing, or
magnetic fluid allows him to remain flexible, grounding him and cooling his excessive body
heat. It frees him from being a slave to his own mental powers of concentration which would
otherwise make him obsessive and dictatorial.
To put it another way, a man might notice that sensing the magnetic field arising from the
water element in his own body is like what he may feel after making love to a beautiful and
loving woman. For a limited time, something of her feminine essence and beauty are
transferred over to him as a purely physical sensation. He then feels blessed, anointed, made
whole and complete—the inner unity between body, soul, mind, and spirit are restored and
brought into balance.
This magnetic fluid is kind, gentle, and tender. It seeks to heal, complete, and make whole
whatever it touches. It is absolutely natural for it to hold things within itself restoring their
balance and harmony.
This magnetic fluid is present in men and women, though as I mention women tend to have
a much higher and more natural charge of it. Becoming aware of it directly strengthens it and
allows us to make it an active part of our consciousness.
Obviously, if a person’s mind is influenced by the magnetic fluid it is easy to try to bring out
the best other people. Instead of viewing others from a position of competition and insecurity,
a person’s mind is empathic, sensitive, and caring.
Franz Bardon really set up a furor in the magic world by publishing the wrong names for
many of the spirits he describes. People write me this about this. They ask me, Do you know
the real name of such and such a spirit? This inquiry seems most paradoxical and ironic to me
because these people rarely give me their real names and here we are having a nice
conversation. So why such a big deal about the names of spirits? You want their email address
you have it in the sigils Bardon has published.
If you find the magnetic fluid in your body, I mean look, it is right here under your breath,
barely hidden behind your heart beat; it is right here riding the physical sensation of blood
through your veins and arteries—find the magnetic fluid in your body and you have found a
magic mirror and holy well: in it is reflected the nature and presence of any spirit in the
universe. The magnetic fluid is that empathic and full of the mysterious and wonderful magical
powers of clairsentience.
Let me say it again, the magnetic fluid is so receptive and utterly open and sensitive it can
quite easily produce in itself, (that is you can experience it within your own body and
consciousness) the actual presence of any living thing. I tell you that in my experience
when a woman really loves you she holds part of your soul and spirit within herself nurturing
and sustaining it.
 At the same time, her love extends inside of you and is constantly striving to make you
whole and complete, to heal your wounds, and unify every fiber of your being. That kind of
love employs the powers of the magnetic fluid.
If you go exploring out there into the domains of the elemental beings, the undines and
mermaids, the spirits of love on the higher planes and within the sphere of Venus, it is easy to
encounter love and attractions which seem beyond human understanding. The beauty of these
beings is again nearly incomprehensible.
But that beauty is always a quality and power of the magnetic fluid. Find the magnetic fluid
within your self. Then you will be able to see what is in front of you. And then you will not
fall victim to other worldly temptations not to mention human lovers with a dark agenda
hidden beneath their beauty.

Air

The air element in the body is easy to sense through the lungs and breath. There are the subtle
changes in air pressure, lung capacity, moisture, and temperature in the lungs set off by the
contracting and release of the diaphragm. This is very similar to sensing the differences in air
pressure, temperature, and moisture that move the winds and shape the weather in the sky.
Bardon suggests that the essential quality of the air element is the sensation of
weightlessness. Air has a freedom to move without being so closely bound to shape and
magnetic attraction. This carries with it a feeling of independence and detachment.
The oxygen in breath is free to travel throughout the atmosphere of the entire planet. Breath
also carries a sense of open expanse. The freedom from limitation and capacity for movement
are, like the cosmic letter A, a tool for studying enlightenment and cosmic wisdom. The mind,
like breath, can become open, free, detached, and expansive.
In breathing we are sharing air with every living being. In breath we gain a taste of
enlightenment. In joining our consciousness to the physical sensation of air our consciousness
becomes a part of the entire biosphere of the planet. Cosmic wisdom is close behind: it is
being aware of a person and an individual thing from the point of view of the whole.
We have emotional disturbances but we can among other things calm our breathing and
calm ourselves down in the process. The sky has storms but the sky itself remains undisturbed.
In every breath is this knowledge of clarity of mind and balance.
If I “bracket” the sensations of earth, water, and fire in my body and focus only and
exclusively on the vibration of air, my body feels like it is make out of air. At this point, I have
the sensation of having become a sylph, a spirit that dwells within air.
On the other hand, a basic exercise in magic related to pranayama involves breathing in
vitalizing energy with the air. When I focus only on the physical sensation of air, I do not
sense this vitalizing or more subtle energy in air. To get that perception, I imagine myself
surrounded by a sea of vitalizing and healing energy. Now as I focus on my breath and the
actions of breathing I can easily sense this vital energy entering my body. It moves according
to where I focus my concentration.
For some individuals, pranayama is quite easy. Others like myself have to use both
imagination and psychic perception in order to get the most basic of exercises to work.

Fire

The body produces heat. We cook food to prepare it for eating using high temperatures. The
body breaks food down at low temperatures using enzymes and catalysts. Without much
effort, I can sense the temperature differences on the surface of my body, in my muscles, and to
some extent within my body as well.
 If I screen out the earth, water, and air sensations in my body (in phenomenology this is
called “bracketing.”), I am left with a sensation of fire: blazing fire within my entire body. If I
continue and place off to the side all outher distractions, all that exists is fire: a conflagration, a
fire storm, and burning and consuming without beginning or end.
You may think that eating your carrots and broccoli and following your vegetarian diet you
are being gentle and peace loving. But your stomach is dissolving that physical matter in a
pool of acid determined to break it down into its components with the ferocity of the acid in a
car battery attempting to strip electrons from metal.
The rapacious, consuming hunger in the body producing heat takes place on a molecular
level under the direction of the DNA molecule. Sense something of this process and you are
sensing the raging fire that extends throughout the universe. In every heartbeat is the pulse of
lightning surging between the earth and the sky.
There is a limit on coldness called absolute zero. There is no limit on the degree of heat or
the will that derives from fire. Nonetheless, too much or too little heat and the body shuts
down.
Someone was asking advice about a really powerful spirit he had encountered. With all due
respect, there are no really powerful spirits. Nothing “out there” even remotely reflects the
power you have within your self should you but find it.
Now then, there is a feminine essence. The masculine essence is derived from the electric
fluid. Men become electrified when they are aroused. Obviously passion and desire can be
overwhelming. But this electrical energy in passion is but a faint reflection of the real thing.
Like male sexuality, the electric fluid is hot, burning, intense, and explosive. It is consuming
and commanding. It is more: it carries with it absolute faith and conviction. The adrenal
glands kick in: all of conscious and all strength are focused on one task—to overcome any
obstacle in its path and to fulfill its mission.
Combine the electric and magnetic in your self? You are fully alert yet relaxed; ready for
action but at peace. You have the sensitivity and receptivity to respond to what is in front of
you and yet the will to do what needs being done.
Magic is using a little bit of the will of the Creator to create. You initiate something new. But
magic also requires the art of the lover who holds in her heart everything involved in what you
are undertaking until it finally bears fruit. Magic requires both the electric and magnetic fluids
in equal measure.

Akasha

Akasha seeks to balance the four elements and maximize their development. It is an
awareness of the activity of all four elements at once.
In terms of my own nature, akasha has the function of regenerating and balancing my
body/health, emotions/astral body, and mind. This akasha that accompanies my spirit is very
alchemical: it hermetically seals itself off from the world in order to focus on and transform the
elemental materials active within me.
This is again very Aquarian and very unlike Leo that shines outward with light and
enthusiasm. The alchemy focuses within, recreating itself from within. It is a very solitary
activity and thus is very difficult to share with others because it is a process each individual
pursues within himself.

The Elemental Domains within Nature

Earth
I am now extending my awareness outside of my body and into the earth element. Basically, I
sense dirt all around myself. The primary sensations are density and weight.
Bardon recommends imaginatively filling one’s body with the earth element (not
accumulating it but just an even spread throughout one’s body) and then dropping one’s mind
down into the ground.
Not much is going on. But after a while I begin identifying my consciousness with the earth
element. I become the earth spread out for miles in all directions. At this point, I begin to
sense geologic strata and various mineral deposits.
The limestone recalls the skeletons of fish from which it was formed and seas long gone. The
sandstone recalls sandy dunes. Coal deposits remember Jurassic forests with the bones of
ancient creatures mixed around.
There is the top soil and vegetation from which it is formed. Here is a water table and
underground streams. Caves and caverns, magma chambers, and tectonic plates. There are
fault lines with their strange twisting and straining like a sculpture of wrestlers striving for an
advantage.
There is the sand from mountains long gone; the boulders from rivers that have not flowed
for millions of years and the rubble left over from ice ages come and gone. I think the process
is fairly clear: if you extend your consciousness into the earth becoming the earth then the
memories of the earth begin to download into your brain with images from a book called,
“This is the geology of the planet you live on.”
From the point of view of a billion years, all of this is very bubbly and constantly changing
like the spray from a wave breaking on a beach. Everything is in motion.
But from the point of view of a few minutes or an hour meditation, it is very quiet and very,
very patient. It has exactly the feeling that accompanies some of my meditations which I have
been practicing for over thirty years.
I have written about the beings who dwell within the earth element elsewhere. At this
point, I suspect one result of acquainting one’s consciousness with the earth element is that
you begin to appreciate the physical world. You enjoy working with material things. You find
it enjoyable to take something physical into your hands and to change it so it is of more value.
Obviously, the earth element is very grounding, very practical, and very down to earth.

Water

I have been writing a book on the water element so let’s see what happens here. I project my
consciousness into the water element in nature. I find myself immediately surrounded by the
sea, blue green and around me is sea weed. And I am soon within a water fall and a lake—I
have become the lake. I am a river flowing to the sea. I am the North Atlantic current, a
tsunami, a tide rolling in, a flashflood, a storm surge, a river flooding its banks, rain, a cloud,
fog, snow, the North Pole—I am within all of these.
I feel a part and one with the vibration of water across the entire earth—I am the surface of
the sea and its depths. I am a billion waves set in motion by ten thousand different winds. I
am the glass of water a woman drinks in a five star restaurant. Now I am in her stomach and
now within her blood stream.
I absorb and release carbon dioxide. I absorb and release heat. I am fluid, liquid, and
malleable. I purify and I give birth to and sustain life.
If I focus exclusively on the vibration and sensations of water, I seem to turn into a merman
(the male version of an undine or mermaid). I am committed to preserving, expanding, and
clarifying magnetic fields produced by water. This is my vocation and my soul. I celebrate
magnetism in all my actions.
 In a waterfall, I am sparkling, effervescent, and I renew life. In a river, I let go and go with
the flow, following gravity as it walks at my side across the land as we listen for the distant
sounds of the sea.
In a mountain lake, the stars’ fiery dance fills my nights with dreams of unending delight.
The clouds drop down and as fog caress my skin. In winter I am still as ice; and in spring the
warm sun penetrates my depths and I turn that radiance into a song that intoxicates, ravishing
the heart and causing the senses to see visions of what shall be.

Air

Again, as I focus exclusively on the air element within my body, I feel as if I have become a
sylph, a spirit of the air. Weightless, floating, I stand within the sky just below the jet stream.
And a little higher, in the ionosphere, where the blue of the sky changes in the black of outer
space.
This is being very detached surrounded by a vast, open expanse. Though my eyes are
penetrating, my gaze is calm. I am incredibly relaxed.
If you want to understand the state of mind represented by all those huge stone statutes of the
Buddha just put your self into the air element. Light is a subtle nectar that nourishes and gives
life. The mind is so open, vast, and expansive it becomes mirror like—its ferocious quest for
the truth so joined to stillness that it perceives without distortion or presumption.
This state of mind can think but it has no dependency on thoughts. It is not attached. All
conceptual systems depend upon and are limited by their assumptions. In this state of mind,
when a thought and its assumption no longer clarify and illuminate a subject that thought and
assumption vanish instantly.
What is it like to be a sylph? You know the wind, from where it arises, how it moves, and to
where it is going. A thunderstorm is in your mind like a pleasant daydream—it is
entertainment like watching a puppy chasing its tail or watching a cat climbing down
cautiously from a tree, its claws clasping and scratching the bark as it descends. And as with a
playful puppy or a frightened cat, with care you can pick them up and take them somewhere
else if you want.
Many scientists have a surcharge of sylph in their astral bodies. The result? The vibration
within their minds of an original observation or the birth of pure and new scientific knowledge
are for these men and women exquisite pleasure—the mind expanding its clarity and
understanding of the surrounding universe are their passion.
Artists and poets also dabble with sylph magic: when a tornado of whirling desire or a
hurricane with its upheaval and wild, raging emotions passes through them, they do not run for
cover or hunker down to wait out the storm. No, they ask, “Now how did this happen?” as
they try to sift through and express every nuance and variable within the phenomenon.
Yes, sylphs in human form or at least temperament have walked among us. We have seen
them wearing the disguise of Mozart, Shakespeare, Newton, Einstein, Socrates and Plato.
As for weather control? I have met the Dalai Lama’s weather controller. And the ancient
Druids were said to exercise some influence over the winds. But if I asked a sylph about this
topic he might say simply, “If you become the sky with your mind and also a hurricane at the
same time, then controlling the direction and strength of the hurricane are no more difficult
than controlling the depth and rhythm of your own breath.”
In evocation, the idea of a “magical name” for a spirit is that if you possess it and understand
it you can control the spirit. But from the point of view of the air element, this is complete
nonsense.
Though it may take ten, twenty, or thirty years, the process is more like your mind is the
wind that gets inside of a cloud. And then when the two are completely joined, you move as
one. It is something very beautiful and profound because one of the most basic secrets of the
universe is that there really is no separation.

Fire

Again, focusing just on fire within my body it is easy to freely associate in my mind with fire in
nature and to enter that fire. Fire in nature: forest fire, lava flow and pyrochastic flow,
volcanoes, the heat of deserts and the light of the sun.
I notice that fire changes things: it melts metals, pulverizes mountains, and builds islands
from out of the depths of the sea. It both tears things down destroying the form and builds
things up shaping new forms.
It can work with the other elements adding depth and passion to love, integrity and urgency
to the quest for truth, or purifying and refining physical matter as in producing steel from iron
and pure gold from ore.
It can destroy as in killing a human being, burning down a house, or vaporizing a city. Fire
in nature just is. It changes things in accordance with the laws of nature. Fire controlled by
human beings depends on intention and wisdom to determine whether the outcome is creative
or destructive.
Fire may seem rather hostile to human nature. We try not to get burned or have an accident
when it is near. But fire is fabulous as a meditation. You can find all sorts of “Ah has” within
it. Such as here is the nature of faith and conviction. Here is the birth of new light. Here is
the highest illumination. And here the power that rejuvenates and, in combination with the
other elements, gives birth to life.
We could talk about the use of fire in your life. Something is not right. And so you decide to
change things. A certain amount of will and conviction is required to extricate your self from
your limitations. To do this you may have to acquire more of the element of fire within your
soul. People imbibe fire sometimes through anger, sometimes by acquiring new faith, and
sometimes by being forced into action in order to protect others.
And we also can talk about fire in the life of nations. Occasionally some dictator appears
with a strength of will equal to a mountain exploding, to a pyrochastic flow that destroys entire
cultures.
But if you know fire well through the depths of your meditations you can become for that
dictator the equivalent of an asteroid hitting the earth. The explosion destroys entire mountain
ranges in an instant. The dictator with all his formidable power, even when he is under the
protection of the dark side—he does not know what hit him. He did not even sense it coming.
Meditating in fire, again, is a strange and seemingly unnatural thing. But if you make its
acquaintance, when you encounter others abusing their power and using their wills for malice,
you can look at them the way a gnome can look at a tree and determine the depths of its roots,
the strength of its wood, and the health of its fruit and leaves.
When you understand the raw material from which the power of will derives, then you are
able to see clearly what is in front of you. And you know how to cooperate (to blend) with it,
to further it, or to destroy it. Such is the magic of fire and the sacred mission it has been
assigned.

Akasha. My ability to penetrate through space and time with my awareness derives in part
from gifts various spirits have offered me. These gifts reawakened abilities I developed in
previous life times. The task, then, is apply what has been learned before to this world in
which I now live so there is some sort of productive, fruitful, and creative action appropriate to
these times.

The Planetary Spheres

From the four elements within the body and within nature, we now proceed further into the
spheres of light. The vibrations are more subtle. These realms are penetrated not with the
astral body but only with the mind and spirit. Of course, all of these following spheric
vibrations are present here on earth in some form or another.
It is just that we rarely encounter them as a pure and undiluted vibration. And if we do the
experience is often temporary and fleeting. The emotions generated by such encounters are
somewhat like the shock wave from a nuclear explosion—we can sense the effects of its
presence but its light is too intense for our natural eyes to behold without some form of
protection.
To some extent religions have been invented to preserve a small taste of the original
experience from when the light touched a soul in earlier age. Rituals and doctrines both
protect the mind while attempting to channel a tiny part of that original inspiration to us so it
can become a part of our lives. And, from my point of view from experiencing the following
spheres, many new religions (and truths of the universe) have yet to find a place in our hearts.

The Earth Zone

The akasha within my self obviously relates to my own body, emotions, mind, and history of
personal experience in this life time. That is its immediate are of supervision.
The akasha of the earth in a similar manner relates to the physical, emotional, and mental
activities taking place on earth during the life time of this planet. That is its area of activity and
supervision.
Obviously, I can go to the earth zone to deepen or explore aspects of my own development
on the three lower planes. But the outlook here also encompasses the entire history of the
earth. The sensation on a sensory level is that of akasha: of penetrating through space and time
and also perceiving the inner spiritual realms of the earth.
The earth zone, which for me is always new whenever I enter it, is at this moment very
peaceful and there is that sense of “akashic records,” of a virtual reality recollection of any
experience that has ever happened on earth. You can enter anyone or any spirit and see
through its eyes and experience what it has experienced. Genghis Khan: I am within him
laughing at a comrade’s joke and I can taste his battle lust and virile, wild cruel and insatiable
hunger and thirst for power without limit.
Alexander the Great: Within him I feel utterly radiant. There is a classic nobility he exudes
on an emotional level. A truly generous person expansive and in many wise while at the same
time perhaps the most brilliant military strategist in history. Inside Alexander I feel like I am ten
times more powerful and in control of my faculties than is any other person on earth.
Why all these wars and incredible amount of suffering and pain that are a dominant theme in
human history? Sitting here in akasha it is plain to see: human beings are under a divine
mandate—learn to master your body, emotions, mind, and spirit and the very forces of history
so that you can take control of your fate and attain to a destiny of your own choosing.
Take Clinton. How many people get the opportunity to become president of the United
States? So it is a personality flaw, a problem with astral equilibrium that leads him to have sex
in the Oval Office. It is a temptation/male thing. Totally understandable for a man to screw up
in this way. But he should have been working to fight terrorism around the world instead of
spending his energy fighting impeachment.
His fate was in control of his life due to his personality flaw so that he did not attain to his
destiny. Failing to attain to one’s destiny due to a personality flaw is totally understandable.
But what an incredible loss and mistake to expose the nation to so much wasted time and
energy due to his out of control passions. A question for the next presidential nominees: “Sir, if
you are elected president, will you be able to keep your dick in your pants while you are
running the nation so the opposing party does not try to impeach you after you lie about it?”
Jews sometimes say about God (or divine mandates by implication): “It is not necessarily a
good thing to be the friend of God. And do not count on God to help you out of a difficult
situation.” Or put another way, “We either learn all we can from life and become our own
teachers or fate will become our teacher.” Its your choice.
The spiritual power here in akasha can solve any problem on earth. The price for entering
and activating akasha within your self to solve these problems in an active and timely manner
is very expensive.
Genghis Khan, by utilizing cutting edge military technology, horse cavalry and archers,
spread terror across the world. But the horse was a wonderful gift to mankind.
Nuclear energy, esp. fusion which we have not yet learned to apply for electrical power
generation, is a wonderful gift to mankind. But I notice small nations spending a hundred
billion dollars to develop nuclear weapons solely for the political status and terror they can
spread across the world.
Like I say, here in akasha of the earth zone there is no problem that can not be solved on
earth. But the cost in terms of training, commitment, time, and energy is very expensive.
It is my position that the human race has more important things to do with itself than rattle
nuclear sabers. I would hope some other people can learn to use akasha in doing what akasha
does: supervising, inspiring, and also setting limits so that human beings learn in the best way
possible, with the highest learning curve rather than though so much pain and suffering.
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares.... neither shall they learn war anymore.”
This will happen when more people are comfortable operating from akasha having worked for
decades on refining and balancing the elemental energies on the three lower planes within
themselves. Then we shall have the peacemakers whom Christ spoke about.

A few more comments on the earth zone. Akasha is so into life on earth. For a sense of
wonder, be sure to visit the earth zone.
In my screenplay, The Fall of Atlantis, the Goddess of the Earth says to a woman, “Create a
religion without priests, temples, or rituals in which wisdom, power, love, and justice are
equally honored and pursued.” Being here in akasha is such a religion.

See also my essay, The Earthzone as a Spiritual University and articles on earth zone spirits
such as Melamo. Also the short essay, Visiting the Earthzone. Most of my essays are listed
under What’s New if no where else.
There is a wonderful sense of the poetic here: you learn to appreciate every moment of time
as something unique and special; and you see each moment as part of the fabric of everything
else that has occurred on earth.

The Lunar Zone

After the earth zone is the lunar zone. It takes me about two seconds and I am fully present
here with my mental body. Think silvery, slightly violet light. Think moonlight, magnetic and
gravitational pull on the earth, tides rising and falling. The lunar zone’s vibration is often
invoked in a Wicca ceremony. The lunar vibration is thick and rich in the call to prayer at an
Islamic mosque.
The lunar zone is an inner peace with the universe. It is the ability to enter a dream and
experience it here and now as if it is completely real.
“Going into the light?” Think that when someone dies they go into a dream and live within
an astral place that is appropriate and comfortable to their astral nature, assuming they make it
that far.
 Basically, you step outside of space and time without emphasizing a connection to our
physical world which is so characteristic of the earth zone. Here you get to pursue the most
subtle vibrations of the astral plane. Obsessed with internet, with computer games, with sex,
with gambling, eating or not eating or some other kind of addiction? What do these things do?
What do they have in common?
For one, they take you outside of the tensions and anxieties of your life. They take you into
an imaginary situation, a situation offering, in however twisted and warped way, a ray of hope,
a sense of completion, a temporary taste of satisfaction and the thrill of being alive.
Enter the lunar zone and at least in terms of your inner life, your life of feeling, you are
already anywhere you want to be. It is that real of a dream. Do you hear voices? Something
unreal is calling to you as if it is real?
The lunar zone is Yeats: “Come away Oh human child, to the forest and the wild, for the
world is more full of suffering than you can understand.” The lunar zone has its dark side, its
negative vibration and when this low grade vibration touches people it takes them into a dream
but a dream that turns into a nightmare, insanity, obsession, torment, sorrow, regret, lost life,
illusion—all of that because they do not draw upon its positive light.
The positive lunar light is the illumination of a dream that allows you to live within what
shall be so that you see and experience exactly what you need in order to change the world.
As in, “I have a dream” and “without a vision the people perish.”
To be nurtured from within when the world offers you no nourishment--this is the power of
the lunar zone. “Take my hand. I will find you. I will guide. I will heal you. I will be all that
you need. I will show you your path to completion. Trust me and you shall attain your
deepest happiness and highest satisfaction.” Who speaks in that way without at the same
abusing his or her power?
The lunar zone is appointed by Divine Providence to provide inner life, self-illumination,
inner peace with the universe, the vision and experience of completion, and a perspective that
from outside of time and history allows you to taste, touch, and participate in a high ideal, a
dream of what life is in its innermost heart meant to be.

So, get it right. When someone says, “Christ it going to return, Christ to going to return. I saw
it in a dream. (Or I read it in God’s Word). Come with me and sell all you have (put it in my
bank account for safe keeping) and come sit on a hill with me.” Or when they say, “The dream
of my God is so real I will simply blow myself up so I can be a martyr and enter paradise that
much more quickly since, gee, my life here is so incredibly unfair, unjust, and I don’t want to
think about how corrupt my spiritual teachers and political leaders are who can’t figure out
how to deal with this world other than trying to destroy it and get back to our golden age.”

These two are both mistaking the power of the dream for the work necessary to make the
dream real. And so they fail in the mandate for the earth of taking responsibility for oneself
and for the world. They do not buy the wisdom that is expensive. They buy an option that is
cheap (that is “out of the money” to use a phrase from investing)—they place their life force
and spiritual essence in a bottle that is unable to contain or preserve it.

Note: the above lunar zone descriptions were written over a period of three hours. It may
seem like I zoom in and out of spiritual domains with great ease. I did say it took me two
seconds to get into the lunar zone. At times I do that. But generally, especially when I am
trying to write up and communicate my experience, the process is very slow, like a translator
trying to make sense of a written language no one has spoken for four thousand years.
I am here studying not what I already know. I am looking for what I do not know--the
wisdom that is lurking but easy to miss.
 Like some yogis who attain bliss, they just want to sit and do yoga and meditate. What else
in life can beat this? There is a temptation with the lunar zone to want to stay here forever.
Why return to reality?
Perhaps the answer is in the voice of the lunar akasha which seems to say, “I am peace and I
am serenity. Don’t think small. Think big. Become peace. Become serenity. Become the
vision that encompasses the beginnings and final ends of history. Think ‘Peace on earth and
good will toward men.’”

A few additional notes: being here is almost exactly like a waking dream—you are asleep but
you wake up within the dream and realize that you can design your own dreams and then
experience what you have imagined.
Last night I dreamed that Phelps Dodge, a stock I had bought three days ago, went up
another two dollars. Today it did go up and I sold it near its high today with a ten dollar per
share gain after holding it for four days. Phillips Dodge (symbol: PD) does this little up and
down movement about four times a year. This time I rode the rise just right.
Dreams do not have to be so prosaic and materialistic. Imagine you could write a dream or
two for tonight that you would experience after you fall asleep. I just worked through several
dreams—dreams that bring happiness, peace, tranquility, satisfaction, contentment, love, an
inner connection to others, friendship, and why even peace on earth.
Imagine the dream with details, with feelings, with new experience, with surprises
happening, with a sense of physical and emotion reality. The lunar sphere embodies a
vibration that is rich in emotional images and sensual experience. It is a dense magnetism that
with the breath of spirit gives life to the dream of satisfaction and fulfillment contained within
any desire, longing, hope, or purpose.
The lunar sphere is the magic and enchantment within every fairy tale. Be clear: the lunar
sphere does not tell you how to proceed—it is not the work you must do to make a dream real.
But just having the dream in place, fully informed with vitality, graphic image, and grace,
exercises a power of persuasion over fate.
To put it simply, what you imagine within the lunar vibration surprises you because it is so
full of life, so unexpected, so satisfying, and new.

See also on my website my articles on spirits from the lunar zone--Ebvep, Emrudue, and
Gabriel

The Mercury Zone

Well, enough of the lunar zone for now. Let’s get out of this mode of inner illumination and
move on to Mercury. Mercury is your high school teacher and college professor trying their
hardest to get you to think clearly. Isolate the parts, aspects, and variables. Separate, study,
define, and then integrate into a whole. Gain a perspective that takes everything into
consideration.
The spirits of the Mercury zone speak thus: “You have a problem? We have a solution in the
here and now, for God is a God of action and we are the servants of the Most High.”
One of the mysteries of human history is when Pope Leo went out single handedly, alone,
and had a conversation with Attila the Hun who was on his way to sack Rome. After the
“conversation,” Attila the Hun turned his army around and went somewhere else. This is the
sphere of Mercury appearing briefly on earth. Mercury is about communication, clarity,
reason, and persuasion.
But Mercury is not timid. Like Moses in Egypt, its voice is quite willing to appropriate the
elements of nature into its voice of persuasion. In Mercury, science and magic are the same
thing. You can solve the problem one way or you can solve the problem the other way. What
is the difference? You use whatever means is easiest for you and the most accessible.
 The periodic table? Scientists arrived at a point where they realized that elements have
chemical properties that follow patterns according to atomic mass. This way they could
predict the nature of elements before they had even discovered them. That is clear thinking
combined with experimentation and observation.

Dark matter? Can’t get a handle on it? Evades all your instruments, observation, research, and
theories even though you figure it makes up 95 % of the matter in the universe? You can put
your mind directly into dark matter.
Gee, look at that! It is like gravity but it is not gravity. Perhaps the universe has dimensions
impinging on our own that we have not yet defined according to our categories of space and
time. That is the magical approach. Just getting a handle on solving a problem a little bit
ahead of the science of our time.
The sphere of Mercury is Joseph in Egypt interpreting the dream of the pharaoh and then
putting into play an economic means so that Egypt would survive the coming seven years of
famine. When a Jew has a gift from God, like Joseph or Einstein, the whole world is influence
by its application.
Wiccans and Moslems have the vibration of the lunar sphere. When they get the dream
right, they are full of inspiration and inner illumination. When they get the dream wrong, they
are haunted by dark visions and terrible suffering.
Jews have the vibration of the sphere of Mercury. When they get it right, they speak with the
Voice of God prophesizing the fate of the nations and revealing the nature of matter, space,
time, and energy in addition to their superb sense of business acumen. When they get the
vibration wrong, they spend thousands of years wondering what they have done wrong.
The voice of akasha in Mercury? “I am clarity. I am communication. I exist to solve
problems and to offer options.”
The archangel Gabriel presides over the lunar zone. Evoking him produces in my
experience a vision of the entire sky being filled with choirs of angels singing with astonishing
beauty. I don’t get angels here singing to God in the Mercury sphere. Instead, there is a
prevailing sense of the worship of the Divine Majesty, full of glory, wonder, and awe.
A princess in my screenplay, The Fall of Atlantis, demanded that a magician give her a
demonstration of his magic since she accidentally discovered he could speak the cosmic
language. He replied, “The Divine Majesty is known for its creativity. What dream would you
make real?” Mercury takes the dream of the lunar sphere out of the inner psyche, out of the
desire of your heart, and materializes it through a brilliant plan of action or else the masterful
applications of a magical will.
In the hermetic tradition of magic a la Franz Bardon, the magician takes responsibility in
some way for the world. He seeks real time and real world solutions to problems which often
seem to have no solution. This is the inspiration and power from this sphere.
If you are going to practice magic, real magic, for twenty five years, then you ought to
occasionally read in newspaper headlines the results of something you have accomplished that
benefits mankind. Otherwise, you might be happier pursuing some other form of leisure time
activity, one that is not so exhausting and which is a lot more rewarding for all the effort and
time you put into your practice.

Friday, 9/29/06

The Venus Sphere

Franz Bardon likes to say that the three previous spheres are analogous to the physical, astral,
and mental planes. If that is the case, then this sphere is the integration and harmonious
interaction between them. This is the realm where the personality is perfected—the physical
body, the emotions, and mind find their common ground and highest mode of harmony and
expression.
It takes me a few moments to get the emerald green light right and then my impressions start
streaming in. What I notice right away is that this sphere enhances the sense of knowing who
you are and what you are best at doing. As a consequence, you know how to maximize your
positive influence on others and the world to the greatest extent.
Your personality—it enables you to get the most out of any situation. You are not stuck in
your thoughts or caught in your emotions or slow in your responses actions due to your body’s
habitual reactions. You feel invigorated, alive, and ready to engage what is occurring in the
world around you.
In my Pop Quiz for Magicians I mention a humorous anecdote in which a spirit appeared to
me at age four and asked me to enter the divine service. I told the spirit in effect to get lost
because its call represented to me that Pisces Age crap of blind devotion, submission, and
fanatical dedication. This is the Age of Aquarius. We are after conscious knowledge,
individual innovation, and the creative exercise of volition.
So the spirit quite cleverly decided to utilize the powers of Venus. It had a female incarnate
nine months later who I would meet in college and who would introduce me to the spiritual
world in which she lived—a world full awe, wonder, and elemental beauty as well as horror,
darkness, and the powers of domination.
You can sit in front of a guru or some great world teacher who speaks wisdom and
knowledge. But that kind of inspiration and charisma are low grade and meager competition
when it comes to meeting your opposite—a member of the opposite gender who reveals to you
directly what is missing from your life and exactly what it feels like to be whole, complete, and
attuned to your destiny.
When it comes to knowing others, your self, or God, there is nothing that can compete with
love. When it comes to attaining illumination or riding the highest learning curve, imagine
what it is like to meet someone who embodies an entire kingdom of sensory experience,
emotional life, and mental awareness that is from outside the boundaries of your life.
But this is not an area for the faint of heart, those who are insecure, manipulative, or greedy.
Love has a way of tearing you apart. And then it puts you back together again making you new
and revealing the divine spark within you. Short circuit the process or fail to follow it to
completion in terms of what you have to learn and you end up in pieces. No healing, no
integration, and no empowerment. Better to stick to that guru who wants only to clone himself
within you.
There are a great many stories from mythology that portray the power of love and Eros. I
will skip those since I discuss them in many places elsewhere. (See my essay on Problems in
the Study of Magic, Part III). Let me instead point to my immediate impression right now: I
sense how in this sphere personal love is treated as a divine art.
This is not in the sense of a marriage ritual established by religion and tradition. Instead, the
Divine Presence is perceived in and through the attraction of opposites. Life, space, time,
matter, and spirit exist through the dance, the polarity, and the expression of opposites. The
dynamic polarity of opposites fully engaged results in the highest magic.
So, in the lunar sphere we meet a dream, well, many dreams of attaining an inner peace
with the universe. Here in Venus, we carry that dream(s) inside of us as we express ourselves
actively in the world. The Wicca ceremony joining the God and Goddess within the vibration
of the lunar sphere? The Islamic call to prayer with its hypnotic taste of the arch angel
Gabriel’s peace?
The Temple of Solomon wherein once a year God Himself would appear within the Holy of
Holies? The magnificence of the Tai Mahal? The grandeur of the Grand Canyon, the
tranquility of Sedona, the splendor of Yosemite? The mystery of the pyramids, the glory of the
Parthenon, the inspiration of St. Peters Cathedral?
 In the sphere of Venus we internalize and carry all of these feelings, dreams, wonders, awe,
and inspiration inside of us. They are a part of our internal life. It is quite obvious from being
here that the journey toward entering the Divine Presence and meeting God face to face begins
with the experience of His creation—namely, in and through our personal experience with life
and in and through personal love.
When you are in love and you truly love for many years, a lot of the qualities and powers of
the other person appear within your self. Love is not idle. It captures the essence of the other
and internalizes it. There is in fact an exchange of inner soul, life, and spirit. Venus captures
the splendor and magnificence of everything beautiful and makes it a part of its self.
It would be nice if they taught this respect for beauty, the study of polarities, and the means
for internalizing its harmony within one’s physical body, emotional life, and mental awareness
in Sunday school, but they do not. The sphere of Venus is beyond the knowledge of all
religions on earth. Oh, occasionally someone intuits its presence and tries to express it. There
have been great artists and geniuses who briefly enter this sphere through force of will. But the
methods of teaching and mastering the grace of Venus have not yet appeared on earth.
I suppose the methods are not all that difficult to conceive. Lovers think constantly about
each other. They are trying to make the other a part of themselves. The German poet Rilke
used to sit in front of something like a cathedral and clear his mind and just focus on his
feelings and body sensations in response to his perception. Then he would write a poem.
Imagine taking all the examples above from nature and religion and concentrating on them
until you could produce their beauty and wonder at will within yourself. Imagine being inside
Socrates as he is engaging his students in dialogue as he is walking about Athens or inside the
mind of Beethoven as he is composing the Ninth Symphony. Imagine being inside the mind of
Lao Tzu who with fine brush strokes is composing the Tao Te Ching: “One who has the wings
of a man and the wings of a woman also is in himself .... an image of the world ....” I imagine
the art of Venus is something like that.

See also my essays on Venus spirits--Gomah, Guru, and Obideh.

The Solar Sphere

Onward. Where do all these ecstatic, blissful, and wondrous experiences with love lead?
They lead to the sphere of the sun, to the realm of pure light.
The method is to surround oneself with bright, brilliant light like the sun. And then project
your mind into the sphere or aura of the sun known in Kabbalah as Tipareth. It is possible in
the sphere of Venus to so love another and to be equally loved in return that a miracle
happens. You feel so full of love that you experience in the same moment a love for all living
beings—you desire to protect them and to promote their fulfillment.
It is a crazy notion, especially here on earth where just surviving and succeeding in our
occupation is a major life accomplishment. What is this crap about divine empathy that takes
into account the needs of others? Leave that to mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. Their
traditions somehow have propelled them into that space of the heart.
Nonetheless, experiencing love for everything alive is still a personal experience. It is the
desire to take something you feel within your heart and to express it through action.
The solar sphere is not so personal. Here it is the divine spark within yourself, your contact
with and embodiment of Divine Providence and the divine spirit within you—these become
fully activated. What is that like?
I have projected my mind into the heart of the Dalai Lama and studied his energy, his
inspiration, and his motivation. (I am doing this right now in fact). I mean he actually has
thousands of students pass through his chakras during a Kalachakra empowerment. This
projecting into others to experience their essence is par for the course, normal operating
procedure in some traditions. Make it a life long habit.
 The Dalai Lama’s heart is like an endless sea of compassion. It is breathtaking. Now, by
comparison, (this is what writers and commentators do) the heart of the archangel Gabriel (just
a moment. Okay. Here I am inside of his heart) is a love, a peace, and a vision that
encompasses all of human history. It is very angelic. But the Dalai Lama is the real thing. His
heart at least is that of a god incarnate which his tradition proclaims he is.
Still, the Dalai Lama is not operating from the sphere of the sun. It is not the quality that is
lacking. It is the level of power behind it. If the Dalai Lama radiated the sphere of the sun,
when he met Mao, Mao would have, like Attila the Hun confronting Pope Leo, turn aside from
invading Tibet. Didn’t happen.
In other words, you can shine with the light of infinite compassion and a mean old dictator
can put out your light-- at least in terms of killing a million of your followers, stealing your
country, and forcing you into exile.
The light of the sun is not so concerned about personal integration and the extent of its
influence. Its light shines to the ends of the universe. The higher spirits of this sphere are
autonomous, independent, creating their energy and inspiration from within. And from within
they are joined directly to God, the Creator of the universe. It makes them wild, dazzlingly
exuberant, and utterly free to express themselves according to their own inner vision.
The voice of the sun? “The solar system revolves around me. My energy and light nurtures
life and brings beings into full consciousness. By passing through me, they attain to their
divinity.”
In each second, millions of tons of matter are exchanged for energy within the sun with
temperatures of fifty million degrees. It takes a million years for those photons to reach the
sun’s surface. And then in minutes that light streams past the inner planets and out into the
surrounding universe.
The fusion of opposites within the sun is so massive and complete that when you experience
this process within your self you become an independent source of life, light, and wisdom.
Having spent five thousand hours in Baptist churches when I was a youth, now that I am
older I love to dialogue with Jews. The Catholic Pope is quite wrong in saying the Logos and
reason are an essential part of Christianity. The Catholic theologians in borrowing and stealing
Greek philosophy got it all wrong. They did a great disservice with the result of placing
barriers in the way of individual’s desire for spirituality.
A Jew can understand this. God is formless. There is no relation between the concepts
developed by the mind in Greek philosophy and the formless, imageless God. God is like
akasha, penetrating through space and time. Western philosophers in the end try to
conceptualize the forces unfolding history. You can get for example dialectical materialism
from this approach or a historian like Toynbee. God understands the forces of history and also
the issues of each individual’s heart. Even Kierkegaard with his resistance movement
attempting to overthrow the powers of reason only made matters worst.
So I dialogue with Jews. For me the question Christian theologians should have asked in the
first century is how can we present Christ in a way that is not in conflict with Judaism? After
all, it is not possible in Judaism for God to incarnate as a human being. On this, all the
prophets of the Old Testament are in agreement, well, everyone except maybe Isaiah.
So, imagine an individual who has the inner dream of the lunar sphere—an inner peace that
reflects and derives from the universe. And he has that mental power of Mercury (like unto
Balaam) and can concentrate with his mind like Mercury spirits for hours on end without the
slightest thought or distraction disturbing his concentration. And like the spirits of the sphere of
Venus, he has experienced the bliss of union to such a degree that every cell in his body is
overflowing with love, a love that effortlessly encompasses the world.
And to this add an inner stillness like the spirits of the sphere of the sun who within are so
empty of form and so utterly open to the divine that at last God can be reflected within and
through them—like light from the sun in which the exact photons that strike the mirror are the
same ones that the mirror reflects without distortion. In other words, a human being, like the
solar spirits, can be so still and mirror like within his heart that God’s Presence is reflected
through him.
Well, that in my understanding would be a doctrine of incarnation in which Christ could
say, “I and the Father are one” which is precisely what the higher spirits of the solar sphere can
say. Now, I would never expect a Jew to like my interpretation. But this is a possible answer
to the question about how close Christianity and Judaism might come at least in terms of
initiating a dialogue.
But then again Christian would never like my interpretation. They want a Christ so divine
that he can not commit sin, in fact, he is so God that he does not even have a choice to
commit sin. That may be the doctrine you want to buy into. But that choice by definition
means God does it all for you. (And by definition, at least for me, you no longer have a human
being—no choice, then no humanity). You do not have to lift a finger to enter this brilliant,
radiant light I am currently sitting within. And that I would consider a spiritual act of criminal
negligence.
But I am an Aquarian, remember? I don’t like human beings or spirits telling me what to
think or do. I like to find my own answers though investigation and direct experience.
Evangelists can be content to “see through a glass darkly.” I am not.
I should point out that meditating within the sun does not make anyone a master no more
than sitting in a class at Harvard or attending Harvard summer school (which anyone can
attend) grants you a degree from Harvard. Though I have to admit that the two classes I took in
economics at Harvard summer school were the best economics classes I ever had. It is nice
when the professor of economics once helped run the British economy. The illustrations in his
lectures are often drawn from the choices he himself made.
Another thing about sitting here meditating in the sun is that your light is seen from other
stars. You hear their songs. You are a part of the harmony of the universe. The harmony is
analogues to Venus and reflected in a soft, quiet way in the light of the moon. The sun is just
far more dynamic and expansive.
What else? In this light there is no selfishness. There is no fear. There is a grand nobility.
There is still individuality. But when you look at the individual you tend to not see the person
but rather the beauty of the universe that shines through them.
Does the sun have a dark side? Obviously. Its light is so bright, even when reflected in a
dim and twisted manner though someone’s personality, that it blinds others and turns them into
narrow minded fanatics. Overwhelm others with the power of your words and the brilliant
ideal for which you stand and then kill off millions with the stupidity of your economic system
or through the cruelty of your dominion. Happens all the time. Expressing the negative is so
much easier than mastering the positive.

See for example my essay on the solar spirit EMNASUT.

The Sphere of Mars

What? After the sun there is more to do? Well, let’s take a look.
The analogy is rather simple. The sun, like Jupiter also, is like a king who oversees and
illuminates a realm with his wise decisions. Mars, then, is the captain of the guard and
commander of the armed forces. His job is to preserve and protect. He is to the kingdom what
the white blood cells are within the body—they fight off infections. Without its presence the
immune system weakens and the body dies.
So, the king is over there in the solar sphere exercising the wisdom of Solomon and helping
his people with his judgments and inspiring them with his light. Mars on the other hand is
practicing like any good martial artist three hours minimum per day in perfecting his martial
arts. Which are?
 First, he is mastering himself. This is not only your basic astral equilibrium of bringing the
elements into balance within your self. This is more than the spirits of Mercury who though
the power of magic control the elements of nature.
No, when it comes to hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, thunderstorms,
lightning, pyroclastic flows, volcanoes, and the like, Mars embodies these powers within
himself. It is a lot more personal. It is a matter of reflecting though oneself the fundamental
powers of creation in both their creative and destructive aspects.
The white blood cells are not the Red Cross or Green Peace. They are like special force
units whose mission is to destroy the enemy. Until a species fully ascends and attains total and
complete enlightenment, becoming like unto spirits, the sphere of Mars will have an essential
role to play. It is about survival and survival is sacred. You as an individual can die and an
entire planet and civilization can be destroyed in any moment. Get used to it. Survival is
always an issue.
Need action in a catastrophe? Do you have a hurricane Katrina? If one helicopter pilot had
defied government authorities and flew over to the coliseum in New Orleans with all those
desperate people waiting for help—if he had rescued just one or two people, he would have
been on the cover of newspapers around the world, the cover of Time Magazine, and on the
Larry King show. He probably would have testified before Congress and won the election for
the next Congressional seat.
All of this because he did what no one in the government was able to do—act in a timely
manner. You want your armed forces trained, mobile, and ready to go. You want to be able to
know how to stop five lanes of traffic to rescue someone injured in an accident or how to find
the one escape route that is open when you building is about to collapse. You want to be able
to have total command of all your faculties and turn your adrenaline to the highest possible
level while retaining a clear mind. Survival is sacred and it sometimes requires that we take
command of all the power we can command in a moment of time.
Now then, in a well-known national newspaper today I have a quote in a letter to the editor
written by a nation’s Press Secretary to the U.N. “[Our] nuclear program is entirely peaceful,
legal and is under the watchful inspection of IAEA. In his Aug. 31 report, the IAEA’s director-
general, Mohammad ElBaradei, stated: ‘[This country] has been providing the agency with
access to nuclear material and facilities and has provided the required reports.”
Okay. Let me just jump directly inside of the mind of this nation’s president. Here I am
now. I am just going to ask him outright if he is planning to develop nuclear weapons.
His response: “I hope to have nuclear weapons within the next year. You do not build a
hundred billion dollars worth of nuclear facilities—heavy and light water reactors, centrifuges
for extracting uranium form uranium fluoride, plutonium, uranium and secret underground
facilities—in order to produce electricity and peaceful medical research. You do not make that
kind of investment when we could spend twelve billion dollars instead for an oil refinery and
produce gasoline for ourselves instead of importing it as we now do.”
(Note: here I am editing this essay and N. Korea, a different nation, just tested its first nuclear
weapon.)
I am getting ahead of myself. I usually leave matters concerning karma, the suffering of
millions, and justice to the Judges of Saturn. You can thank this president and others like him
for motivating me to write this essay. I am moving through the planetary spheres on my way
out to Saturn in order to gain a better perspective on this issue of the proliferation of nuclear
weapons. Aquarians worry about the future and we at times have the telepathic capacity to
consider options in solving problems. Back to Mars.
The maxim within Mars is simple and straightforward: “You train your self to whatever
extend is necessary in order to accomplish your mission.” This training is not just mind,
emotions, and body. The beings in this sphere train their inner spirit as well. If it is necessary,
they will incorporate the fundamental forces of nature into their wills.
 When I was young, I was disturbed by the fact that other nations had nuclear weapons
pointed at my house. Yes, that is right. I took it personally. These nuclear weapons were a
threat to my self and my future children.
What is the level of will within a human being that is analogous to a nuclear weapon?
Does a petty dictator, a strong man, or a religious fanatic understand the power at the nucleus
of an atom that he has under his command?
You want the peaceful application of nuclear energy? Then from the perspective of Mars you
will need a power of will that can survive the sphere of Saturn, that has an absolute
commitment to preserving life understanding that all of life is sacred. It is a will that, without
abuse, is able to channel though itself the very powers of creation.
And what is funny is that when fusion reactors appear instead of the fission reactors we now
use, oil prices will fall within ten years from sixty to less than twenty dollars a barrel. The Arab
kingdoms raking in all this oil profit will soon be bankrupt.
By all means, let’s have peaceful applications of nuclear energy. Understand, the human
race will then find it easy to place colonies on Mars and within a hundred years in other solar
systems. But these peaceful applications will not happen unless there are individuals who
train their body, emotions, mind, and inner spirit aligning themselves with the powers of
creation so that “nation shall not lift of sword against nation.” Otherwise, the suffering will be
greater than anything occurring in the last century of two world wars.

See also my essays on the Mar’s spirits Idida and Gibsir

The Sphere of Jupiter

Today my first response to being in the blue light is a feeling of gratefulness for the simple
things I have been given. Growing up, I have had food to eat. I had thrilling and challenging
physical activities. I had people around me who were committed to living a good life. I had
intellectual interests and challenges on a high level.
And, though rudimentary and very basic, there were people who were honestly trying to
pursue a spiritual life. I can be grateful because not more than a half mile away there lived
large numbers of people who did have these things. While I had the wealth of Jupiter on at
least three levels, they experienced poverty, drug addictions, crime, broken families, cultural
deprivation, and horrific living conditions. We did not have crime in my neighborhood
because the mob boss lived across the street and criminal activity was forbidden. Wealth on
earth is never without irony and contradiction.
The vibration of this sphere encourages you, in fact, demands of you that you think in
terms of being wealthy within yourself. And this wealth means having such an expansive spirit
that you seek to enhance every situation you are in making it better because your interaction
adds something of value.
Do you have a problem holding you back? Solve your own problem and you solve the same
problem for many. Overcoming your limitation enables you to enrich others’ lives.
I am told by someone who used to sit with Bill Gates during corporate meetings that in spite
of hiring the best and most brilliant people in the business community, Bill Gates just “doesn’t
get it. He does not understand even the most basic changes that have occurred in technology.
And if you suggested to Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer that they no longer ‘bundle’ their products
in Windows, they would die of a heart attack.”
Sell people individual items so people can pick and choose what they really want? Forget
it. Forcing crap on people is what has made Bill Gates the richest man in the world. Still, he
was once innovative and masterful in leading his corporation to supreme success.
But the history of corporations in America demonstrates a pattern—those that succeed later
stagnate. They can not keep up their level of growth and creativity. To do so, they would have
to reinvent themselves.
 How do you reinvent yourself? You go back to basics. You start over. You see life anew.
For Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer? Stop thinking in terms of how you can manipulate and
exploit others’ weaknesses. Allow your self to act, think, and feel differently. Take the
perspective of others. Think in terms of what they want and need.
A family stock broker said to me, “I don’t make money unless you make money. How can I
help you?” I replied, “Sure. Give me the list of all the foreign stocks listed on the New York
Stock Exchange.” He never got back to me. Ten minutes on internet and I discovered the New
York Stock Exchange, nyse.com, lists all the ADR’s or foreign stocks by country on its website.
A lot of people are not trying to help you or others. They are wrapped up in their own ways
of thinking. To grasp life, you have to think outside the box.
So, the mark of someone who has a vastly expansive inner spirit? This individual knows
how to listen without preconceptions and then creatively responds. In the remake of the TV
series, Battlestar Galactica, the scientist Baltar has an inner guardian spirit and later he in effect
plays the same role for another woman. The guardian spirits save the lives of their human
counterparts over and over. They do this simply by pointing out things that are completely
obvious.
When you are entangled in life situations, the most obvious things miss you. But when an
expansive inner spirit is present, in this case, one who is completely detached and yet utterly
intimate, you change your behavior and seize opportunities the moment they arise. Generosity
and nobility, seizing the high road, are the pure power of creativity. They are freedom in
action.
You want the high road? You want to live a good life? You want to do something
remarkable and noble with your self? You want be able to say at the end of your life, “Here
and here I did things and made decisions that even God has got to appreciate.”
“Tell me why we live so many sad and lonely years?” asks the song writer. So often we
live our lives without growing, transforming, or learning anything new. Jupiter offers things to
do during each stage of our lives that grant us the highest levels of fulfillment. These things are
also the very things that enable us to fulfill and enhance others’ lives as well. Do this and you
do not possess wealth externally. You embody the wealth of spirit.
I could write a book on the value of honesty and integrity in business transactions and how
they lead to success. I could go on to discuss in detail how power corrupts and the corruption
that plagues businesses and governments around the world. But I will skip the anecdotes.
Sitting here in the blue energy of Jupiter, I gaze out at the lives of many people I know who
have succeeded in their careers. And from the point of view of Jupiter, “You fight to protect
every single dollar you make.” (George Forman after losing millions). But you also realize
equally “Our work is humanity.” (Lewis Carole.)
Learn to listen well to others. And then recreate your self and the world around you, for this
is the will of God and the power of akasha in Jupiter.

See my essays on the Jupiter spirits Asmodel and Aduachiel.

The Sphere of Saturn

Ah, Saturn! I often mention that Saturn is like a nightmare. It is rather gloomy. Druids and
Wiccans, however, see that Beltane and Samhuinn (Halloween) are both sacred times on the
same circle of life. They each view life from the opposite side of the other.
Beltane is like Venus. It is a time of joining and coming to together, of the bliss and ecstasy
of union, and the creation of new life. Samhuinn is like Saturn. It is death and separation. It is
departing and leaving behind the life we know and have lived.
Sitting here in the aura of Saturn it is natural to ask certain questions such as “What did my
great grandfather and grandmother bequeath to me? Did they live through horror and suffering
so that I might live and breathe? What part of their lives produced something of value that has
come down to me? What sins did they commit, what good did they omit that has passed down
through the generations and which I have to now deal with? And will my great grandchildren
ask the same questions about me?
Will anything of my self remain? Or will time destroy all that I am? Shall the person that I
am now be no more?
I quite the Psalmist often in my essays, “You turn men to destruction and say, ‘Return you
children of men,’ for a thousand years in Your sight are but as yesterday when it is past or as a
watch in the night.” These words could easily have been written by a man who had a habit of
meditating as I am doing right now within the sphere of Saturn.
Time destroys all things. Can we join Samhuinn and Beltane, Venus and Saturn within our
hearts so that separation and death lose their sting? I have suggested this path in some of my
poetry. (See the poem, Samhuinn).

If we could join Venus and Saturn within our hearts, then we would realize how precious love
is and also how rare, fragile, and fleeting. In any case, however we decide to bargain,
negotiate, deny, resent, protest, or accept our fate and the limitations of life, meditating here is
certainly viewing your life from the other side of the grave.
Some Shaman from different parts of the earth, in order to become healers and to overcome
their own and others fears/demons, meditate in graveyards. It is standard practice. To
understand what it is to be alive you have to view life from both sides.
Meditating here today is very melancholy. I find myself reliving experiences with others,
both the beginning and end of the relationships. In the movie, Meet Joe Black, the wealthy
industrialist says that “sixty five years go by like that” and he snaps his fingers.
There are auctions in Los Angeles for storage facilities in which the rent has not been paid.
You can bid on the contents of a storage locker but you do not get to see what is inside unless
you win the bid. Sometimes a man has left his valuables, his memorabilia, his keepsakes, etc.
And there are the pictures of his wedding, his marriage life, his vacations, his family, and his
divorce papers. It has gone. It is the memories of a life time that now fall into the hands of a
stranger who is no more than a scavenger. How sad.
Would he have still married that girl if he had known the final end? What would he have
tried to do different if he had known the end as a possibility he might have been able to
forestall? If “death were his guide” would he have been able to be both detached and loving
enough to realize that in life the best and the worst walk side by side? The infant’s first cry and
the last breath of that child who later in life shall die—from Saturn you see them both in the
same moment before your eyes.

Now then, back to my theme. I am out here in Saturn in my relentless, persevering, and life
long quest for world peace. After all, before I was born, Stalin killed tens of millions in Russia
but Mao holds the current record of thirty million starved to death in China due to his idiotic
economic policies. I would like to play a small part in keeping such disasters from happening
in this century.
I notice I have already written in my earlier writings the answer I am looking for now. But I
wanted to be sure. I wanted to get the feeling stronger from within.
To deal with a rogue nation rattling its nuclear saber and already threatening the destruction
of other nations, simply follow the handbook. The manual I am reading from which I have
found in the akasha of Saturn reads—

Join your self to the sphere of Saturn so you are like unto one of the Judges of Saturn who has
come down to earth. And then mediate on the issues of justice and karma and the visions of
what shall be from the point of view of Saturn and eternity.
Become literally the Spirit of Christmas Future who takes that world leader into the future
and shows him his own death and the final end of all his works on earth. Those who return
from brief encounters with death or who have survived cancer often see life through new eyes.
They see the life that remains to them as a gift rather than as an opportunity to see how much
they can exploit.
Give this gift: give the experience of undergoing death while still alive. Perhaps there is still
time for a man to change his ways before he shall die. “He that rules over men must be just ....
and he shall be as the light of the morning, even a morning without clouds, after rain, with
tender grass springing out of the earth.”(the last words of King David).
Judgment day is akasha. It is in every moment. Millions can die or a man can make a better
choice so that suffering is avoided and life and light are preserved on earth.

Ah, that is what I was looking for—a little reassurance and wisdom about how to proceed with
a very difficult karmic situation involving the nations of the earth.

See my essays on Finding Saturn in Yourself and also Saturn, an evocation. Also, my essay on
Achaiah presents a peace meditation.

10/22/06, Sunday. Again visiting Saturn. The energy is dense, heavy, and filled with the spirit
of oppression. Just think of any time when you were held back from moving forward—when
getting what you wanted confronted overwhelmingly opposition.
It is a time when you are beset by darkness and can not find a path to follow. It is a time
when nothing around you seems to express or reflect the desires of your heart. It is a time
when all the opportunities for expanding your experience, for feeling alive, and getting the
most out of life seem to come crashing down. Your hopes dashed to pieces, dreams shattered,
your life shipwrecked.
Okay. Let us take a look at this again. A few brief reminiscences. Hard work is one theme
of Saturn. I know a family. The grandfather taught himself chemistry and metallurgy. He
emigrated to the U.S. Here he gained and lost four fortunes one after the other. Fifty years
later an economist would invent the idea of preserving capital by diversifying your investments
over different sector and size corporations. The grandfather was extremely creative but his
creativity lacked an essential self reflective capacity. He failed to learn from his mistakes; or,
sudden opportunities that boom and then bust are hard to learn from when so many others are
making the same mistakes.
His son also amassed a fortune managing to hold on to it for most of his life but lost it in the
end. However, this descendant was able to do what his father before him was unable to do:
keep his sons close to him by offering them jobs in his company.
Now the grandson also amassed a small fortune. But unlike his father who was widowed
twice and yet had the habit of marrying three Church organists one after the other, he married
an accountant. Accounting is the work of Saturn.
In those days, woman could become accounts but they could not get jobs as accountants.
Why had she studied accounting? She wanted to understand the stock crash of 1929 and the
resulting depression.
During that crash, her family survived for months buying food with the sixty dollars she had
saved. And her father was the only one on his floor of the General Motors building in Detroit
who did not commit suicide or die of a heart attack during the crash of 1929. Our recent
Enron corporation debacle is nothing compared to the betrayal of employees and investors by
GM management, the Fischer brothers, and Merrill Lynch.
So when her husband tried to do what his grandfather and father before him had done,
namely lose his money after a life time of hard work (I mean, we are talking sixty and seventy
hour weeks), his wife kept him in check. She would yell and scream when he was about to
throw away his money on some idiotic venture. You could say that unlike his ancestors he
was blessed by having a representative of Saturn by his side.
 Another example. Imagine Jesus. Harold Bloom, a Jewish author and literary critic who
wrote Jesus and Yahweh, says that in spite of the Christian attempt to rewrite the Old
Testament, there is no Jew in history more loyal to Yahweh than Jesus. And so, as opposed to
both Jewish and Christian revisionism, when Jesus is asked about which is the highest law you
can imagine his response.
Now questions about law are another theme of Saturn. Saturn is not only about balance and
the ending balance. It is about justice and judgment. It is about the judicial interpretation of
divine law and its applications.
With his spirit joined to akasha, Jesus could understand Yahweh’s perspective: “I have sent
you prophets for a thousand years. And I recall every single time you ignored them, resented
them, mocked them, scorned them, persecuted them, sold them into slavery, or killed them.
Only very rarely did you respond. For this reason, I will not send you another prophet.
“But just to answer your question--all the laws and prophets can be reduced to two
commandants. (Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and the second is like
unto it, Love your neighbor as your self). If your religion does not take you to the bottom line
(and lead you into akasha) then it has failed in its purpose making it worthless. At this point,
the divine will abandon you leaving you to your own devices and turning your religion into a
house of illusion.”
In the example of the grandfather, father, and his son, all three men had a very powerful
faith in God. But they loved their hard work more than they loved God. Akasha and Saturn
exist to enable us to master our limitations. Therein lies freedom. But like the heads of nations
I am concerned with, there is the danger of becoming enslaved to rituals, daily routines, and
the things that one fears. Having gained power, presidents and dictators fear losing their power
rather than using it to its greatest advantage.

11/3/06, Thurs. It is interesting sitting here after projecting my mind into the sphere of Saturn. I
am still aware of my body and surroundings. But my spirit, the higher aspect of my mind, is
also within the sphere of Saturn.
The part of my self that I am projecting immediately identifies with the Saturn vibration. The
outlook is that of a guardian angel who views an incarnated person from the point of view that
sees his past and future incarnations.
It asks itself: What life circumstances can I create for this individual that will allow him to
learn the most important lessons of life, not like answers you write on a test but realizations
you embody in the very fibers of your being? How can I get him to face his deepest illusions
head on so that he learns on his own through his own insight and from his own experience that
wisdom is better than folly.
And that truth is so valuable that the pain of finding it and then enduring it is justified
because the entire venture of life is designed for the discovery of truth? And how can I get him
to see that freedom is found in learning all that can be learned from life and then learning how
to share that wisdom with others?
What situations can I place him in so that when I give him the greatest gifts life has to offer
these gifts do not destroy his life like the winners of so many lotteries who lose all sense of
perspective and moderation because their intentions are no longer constrained by familiar
boundaries? And above all else, how can I make him my friend and confidant so I no longer
have to wreck his life in order to gain his attention or use sickness, depression, and lost love to
awaken his conscience?
How do I get him to realize that the laws of the universe and the laws of society are not the
same? That both are subject to interpretation and that both can be modified, appealed, or
amended by judicial oversight and creative action that recreates?
All of the above sounds rather detached and distant. But guardian angels are kind of
detached and distant, aren’t they? Then again, the perspective here also asks: If I were in his
body with his emotions, background, and mind could I make a better choice than the one he is
making without losing my feeling of being alive? What option do I see and am I willing to act
upon that he does not see and can not grasp as a better alternative to the dark fate that awaits
him?

The Sphere of Uranus

If Saturn had a motto it might be: “Be responsible for all your actions. Learn everything you
can from life. Use your time on earth wisely so your life has a solid foundation and you reap
the fruits that arise from living with integrity. Master your fate and your karma for therein lies
freedom.”
Uranus also has a motto. It might read like this: “In the fullness of time all things shall be
made new. This is our commission: To make a new heaven and a new earth.”
Uranus is about the unexpected. Saturn is respect for tradition and learning from the past.
Uranus introduces things that have never existed in the past.
Uranus is a part of our solar system. It is in the same plane as the other planets. It is just that
it rotates at an angle to the plane of the solar system. What is new does not fit in. It moves at
an angle. It has its own sense of direction.
When new things appear in our lives—new and unexpected opportunities—we often let
them go by. The opportunities escape from us. Our highest destiny pauses for a moment to
touch us on the shoulder, to whisper in our ear, to greet us with a friendly smile, a hug and an
embrace and then it goes on its way leaving our lives behind.
To take hold of the opportunities and gifts from Uranus you have to enter that vibration—
think its thoughts, feel its feelings, see with its eyes, dream its visions, and make a place for it in
your life. It takes an effort because what is this new must tear a part something of the old
before it becomes alive.
You can just imagine two Uranus spirits somewhere out there beyond space and time having
a casual conversation. Think of someone like Q from Star Trek and a time traveler from the
28th century.

Q. You know, I have been thinking about giving mankind something new.
TT. Like what?
Q. Maybe radio.
TT. I think that already have that.
Q. Then air travel.
TT. They have that too.
Q. How about the ability to pick up a phone and talk to anyone else on earth. Now that
would be great for developing international understanding and bringing about peace between
the nations.
TT. They have it and it is not being used in that way.
Q. I know, how about the knowledge of matter and energy transforming into each other?
TT. Been there. Done it. Nearly destroyed the planet.
Q. How about internet?
TT. You might as well give them virtual pornography.
Q. New tools for investing?
TT. Think money laundering, new cons and scams not to mention spam.
Q. Unrestricted access to the encyclopedia of human knowledge?
TT. And imagine that knowledge in the hands of madmen, extremists, cults, and terrorists.
Q. We are getting off topic. How about antigravity vehicles, energy without dependence on
oil, gas, or coal, the ability to observe events in the past, and also to scan the surface of planets
in other solar systems close up without need for physical instruments?
TT. Ah. Now you are talking. But you know as well as I what those changes would bring.
Q. Someone would have to open the gate of knowledge.
TT. Yes, if they are willing to pay the price.

And so on and on the conversation goes. But Uranus is not always so mundane. According to
Bardon, Uranus decides when new magical knowledge may be taught on earth. Uranus is the
custodian of all magical keys. It is the guardian of the gate of wisdom.
Furthermore, Bardon mentions that for the vibration of Uranus to enter your consciousness
you need to be acquainted with the sphere of the moon. In other words, the gifts of Uranus are
so far outside of normal human experience that you have to be able to enter a dream with your
full consciousness intact in order to perceive them. Or, to really ask and answer the
questions—What can and what should be?—you need to possess an inner serenity. Otherwise
the weight of daily life will steal from your imagination your insight.
And when you think about it the keys to magical knowledge have been rather rare on earth.
The miracles performed by Moses? The prophets that came later never had more than a small
piece of the pie. None of them ate from the same table that Moses sat at.
Christ tried to teach Peter how to walk on water but Peter chickened out. The Church
received no more than a few crumbs left over from the Great Celebration.
Padma Samhbava, the great magician and founder of Tibetan Buddhism? He hid teachings
for future ages here and there. Occasionally something of the knowledge he possessed is
found but then again in our own time that knowledge was given back because it was felt we
were not yet ready for it.
Poor Merlin! He taught his magic to Niniane and she tricked him and trapped him under a
stone. You could say Niniane was Merlin’s test—a test sent from Uranus and designed by
Saturn. To teach his magic to mankind Merlin had to first find his opposite within himself so
he could recognize whether love was true or an illusion. But does any man on earth possess
such wisdom or does any man know the true worth of love?
There is a hill on the Isle of Iona in Scotland where the sixth century saint, St. Columba, used
to talk to angels—on a daily basis mind you. His disciples describe how his little room at night
would shine with its own light. Columba believed he could enter the Presence of God.
But guess what? He never got around to teaching precisely how to do that to his disciples. I
my terms, the transmission Columba used for shifting between reality and the spiritual worlds
was stripped of its gears. He was so blissed out of his mind, so blinded by the light that, like
the Apostle Paul with his vision, Columba never could quite get back to this world.
It takes a special effort to focus on what needs to be done to lay a proper foundation for his
disciples so they capture his experience or find their own path, one of equal value. You have
to cooperate with Saturn—you have to present something systematic that moves step by step
involving self-discovery and self-initiation (self-empowerment) if you want the knowledge of
Uranus to enter the world.
Why that concept is almost the complete opposite of the idea of religion. Knowledge is
freedom but only in the hands of a person who possesses wisdom—a sense of inner balance,
proportion, moderation, and harmony.
Uranus is very intense. It is exuberant, full of promise and delight. Like drinking expensive
champagne—in this place, your head gets light. Uranus is keeper of the treasures life has not
yet revealed. They are yours for the asking. You only need to pay a little price: just take into
your hands a small portion of the powers of creation.
Uranus is all about the powers of creation. The air here is saturated with the knowledge of
the building blocks of time, space, matter, life, and spirit. It is called the cosmic language but I
do not get a lot of email from those who find those kind of practices satisfying.
It is easy enough to read stories about the life of Steiner, Crowley, Bardon, and so forth.
Now imagine someone who really had the vibration of Uranus, someone who has made this
sphere his home. What I see is a person with a family who lives out in the country. He lives a
quiet, simple life.
 But his telepathy is quite good. His clairfeeling excellent and his clairvoyance right up there
with the best. He does not publish books. He gives no seminars. But like the head of the
Carnegie, Ford, or Bill Gates foundation, he is constantly looking for new ways to share his
wealth.
Yet unlike them, he does not interview those seeking donations for their projects. Rather, he
searches the earth with his mind for those who can serve as worthy vehicles for new
discoveries and truth. Fusion reactors, the cure for cancer, longevity bordering on
immortality, new economic theories and practices, the way to feed the hungry, heal the sick,
give jobs to the poor, transform the criminal, resolve conflicts, probe the mysteries of matter
and reveal the paths of spirit—why this is what he does. He pores out new gifts to mankind
through inspiration and direct mind to mind thought transference when and where someone
appears who is ready to receive what he has.
Well, that is a vision of how someone who is rich with the knowledge of Uranus might
operate on earth. Like I say, he would live a simple, quiet life. Not ostentatious. Not
pretentious.
His wealth is so great he already has everything he could want or even dream. His only
limitation is that he has to find those who will receive and carry his gifts to mankind without
squandering them, abusing them, and also watching over them so that they do not become
subject to evil designs.
Well, this has been a brief visit to Uranus. It has been ten or fifteen years since I was last out
here. I will try to stop in again. But I have been told to also enter the next sphere of Neptune.

The Sphere of Neptune

This sphere is similar to the crown chakra’s relation to the lower six chakras and also in some
ways like the relation of akasha to the four elements: it serves as a higher conscience and also
an embodiment of all ideals. It embodies the purposes that encompass everything else. And it
insists ultimately on balance, harmony, and unification.
The astrological sign of Pisces is ruled by Neptune. Neptune plays the role to the other
planets that Pisces has to the other eleven members of the Zodiac. It is the conclusion, the
unity, the completion, the final goal, and the mystical vision for which all else serves.
Too much Pisces in an individual’s natal chart and you have a person who is over sensitive,
mystical, self-sacrificing, blindly loyal, sometimes a fanatical idealist, and overwhelmed by
others’ emotions and depths of feeling that have nothing to do with the reality of daily life.
Too little or a complete absence of anything remotely Pisces like in the natal chart and you
get an individual who is materialistic, selfish, trapped in his own ego, insipid, without
empathy, and who lacks the passion to change the world.
The first few moments I projected my mind into this sphere the energy felt heavy and
magnetic—but no more dense than the earth element and no more magnetic than is typical of
the water element. And immediately there was the sense of Piscean idealism with its vision of
the unity of life and the oneness of all living beings.
Now, ten minutes later, the sensation or feeling is of a party, kind of like among
undines/mermaids. At this party everyone loves each other. And like a party among undines,
it is outrageously joyous and festive; the air intoxicating and the love as real and as precious as
life has always hinted that it could and should be.
Saturn is viewing life from the other side of the grave. Saturn is like sitting down with the
Judge of the World whose name is Fate. And he/she reviews your life with you saying,
“These were the cards life dealt you. And look what you did with them! Look how you
played your hand! I dealt you a wild card here and you threw that golden opportunity away. I
dealt you aces and you called too soon.
 “And here and here had you only bluffed raising the stakes you would have walked away
with the desires of your heart. Don’t you get it? Life is not only about the cards you have been
dealt. Life is about being attentive to others so that you transform each other.”
Well, that is Saturn. The Sphere of Neptune is like the heaven that people can not imagine.
But it is not out there after death or up there somewhere. Rather, it is meant to come down to
earth.
When there is a race of skilled magicians who love from the core of there being anywhere in
this galaxy then that is where Neptune has made a place within the physical world. That is the
“marriage of heaven and earth” to misquote William Blake.
With all due respect, no religion is required for this dream, no belief and no faith. It is about
hard work, wisdom, and the realization that love is behind and underneath all things. The
song goes: “If the people lived their lives as if it were a song for singing out of light/Provides the
music for the stars to go dancing circles in the night.”
Unlike the party among undines or even among the spirits of Venus, Neptune understands
like no other realm that the physical universe has been created as the vehicle and preparation
of a Great Celebration—of a dance of light that is infinite joy and unending love.
When Joseph Campbell explains the Hero’s Quest I do not think he ever found his way to
this place. None of the mythologies speak of it. Oh, it is not that the great world teachers have
not been out here. It is just hard to describe without the direct experience:
How do you explain the taste of the elixir the Chinese Eight Immortals drink that makes them
immortal? How do you describe the taste on your tongue of the twelve fruits from the Tree of
Life that are for the healing of the nations?
How do you expound on what is like when the Tao is upon you, within you, and around
you so that all you have to do to move with its flow is to let go? Beethoven could have said, “I
can touch this Joy within my art but without my art it has nothing to do with my life.”
Like I say, Neptune is rather mystical. If you have a personal God, then it like knowing and
feeling that when you pray your heart is joined to the heart of God during your prayer so that
there is no separation. It is more than Mother Teresa who says “I seek to find Christ hidden in
others.” With Neptune you are the life hidden within others. It is part of your self.
Reviewing my brief time here I would have to say that this sphere is the most like anything
that represents a genuine cosmic religious experience. Just being here is a completion that is
more than personal love. Or more accurately the personal and the universal experience of
love are completely united.
So, a guy is on a beach and he finds a lamp in the sand and of course if the story is to go
anywhere he rubs the lamp. Out come three genies. They say to him, “Each of us offers you a
wish in accordance with the sphere that we represent. You may have one but not two or three.
The wishes we bestow consume an entire life by the power of their mystery. What do you wish
for?”
He says, “I want to get the most out of life.” The first genie who represents Saturn says in
reply, “Then I will give you a life of hard work—sixty and seventy hour weeks. But you shall
always be able to say truthfully that you are doing what you love most. In the end, you shall
be Warren Buffet (the second richest man in the world) who gives thirty billion dollars away to
charity.” [The genie later apologized about not being able to offer the “most wealthy man” in
the history of the world. A dumb college student who somehow got into Harvard and then
dropped out got that wish as a result of a wish he made in a previous incarnation.]
And the second genie who represents Uranus replies, “I shall make you Winston Churchill.
All those around him said that England should accept Germany’s offer to end the war by
leaving Hitler in charge of Europe. Surrounded by doubt and fear, Churchill resisted. He said
that this island nation has not existed for a thousand years only to surrender to tyranny. The
fate of the world passed through Churchill’s hands and was shaped by the choice he made.”
And the third genie who represents Neptune replies, “I will make you Bob Dylan whose
words shall inspire a generation. You shall be the tambourine man, the Fool card in the deck
of the Tarot, who walks through life unconstrained and free. The spirit shall be upon you. But
you shall not understand the words you speak for no one is yet ready to comprehend my
Mystery.” (Bob Dylan wrote the song Blowing in the
Wind in ten minutes. But when you listen to Dylan when he is asked about what the song
means it seems pretty clear to me that he not only does not care what the song means but that
he lacks the mind to even begin to understand the words.)
Which wish did the man on the beach with the lamp choose? What did he gain and what
did he lose? Was he wise or was he a Fool? I will leave that to you.