PTAHHOTEP'S INSTRUCTION:
THE SEVEN OCTAVES OF VIBRATION AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
(part from book Initiation
by Elisabeth Haich)
I stand before Ptahhotep and listen devoutly to his words: Today, I
shall explain to you the laws on which the staff's miraculous effect is
based. These are, of course, simple laws of nature. God is everywhere
present and the emanation of His omnipresence is manifest in the visible,
material world as natural law. Therefore, nothing can happen outside natural
laws. Yet these laws differ from one stage of development to another.
'Different laws apply to the spiritual, the mental, and the material world.
And in the material world we find different laws at work in one and the
same form of matter, depending on the magnitudes involved. For example,
it is a law of nature for the surface of a body of water at rest to be
horizontal. But this law is valid only within certain magnitudes. A drop
of water in the calyx of a flower has a spherical shape, and a microscopic
being living in this miniature world would come to the conclusion that
water always has a spherical shape. Why? Because the relation between
the surface tension of water and the power which forces water into the
horizontal is very different in a drop—that is, in a small quantity—from
what it is in a large body of water. And yet, the same laws are at work.
'People know very little about the laws of nature, with the exception
of those they have experienced in daily life. They have become accustomed
to these and call them "laws of nature". And having found names
for them they believe they know the true essence of the laws of nature.
They accept these laws and their effects as a matter of course. But when
they are suddenly confronted by some phenomenon they know nothing about,
they immediately speak of "miracles" or "magic".
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PHARAOH BEFORE AMON |
PTAHHOTEP |
People do not realize that these forces are no less laws of nature than those to which they have become accustomed and think they know, even though they haven't the vaguest notion about their true character. For man doesn't know why a plant will grow from a seed or why a new being will evolve from an impregnated cell. Neither do people know what "insemination" really means and why, after insemination, the cell will divide and subdivide. They have no idea why this subdividing process is repeated again and again, not even stopping at birth, going on and on until a full-grown individual has developed out of that one single first cell ... then still going on until this chain reaction slows down by itself and gradually gives way to a decline. But since people experience this daily, they take it for granted and aren't the least bit surprised at it. Still, this growth of a plant out of a seed, the birth of a child, death, the different effects of the winds blowing from different directions, and many other experiences of everyday life are just as "miraculous" as the effect and the secret of this staff and the other "miracles" and the "magic power" of the initiated.
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| Elisabeth Haich, founder of Europe's oldest Yoga school |
Swami Vivekananda, The father Atothis of Elisabeth Haich in old Egypt |
'For you truly to understand the forces used by the initiated and applied through this staff of life you will first have to learn a number of things. 'When we spoke about the tree of knowledge of good and evil you learned that everything which has taken on material form is visible and perceivable Only because it has fallen out of perfect unity and perfect equilibrium. But from this state of disjunction, everything tends eternally to return to unison and balance. "Equilibrium" means complete repose, motionlessness. On the other hand, "to have become something"—that is, to have taken on visible, tangible form—is identical with loss of balance and with the constant urge to regain this equilibrium. It means incessant unrest, with continual movement. Should this constant motion cease, even for only a moment, all creation would suddenly be transformed into spiritual energy, that is, materially destroyed. 'All energy, all the forces of the universe, are movements which emanate from one point—their own centre—and radiate in circular waves in all directions, manifesting themselves as vibrations or oscillations. These manifestations of force cease only when the forces that have got out of balance regain their primordial state of equilibrium, the divine unity. Hence when we speak of the "primordial state" we mean the state in which all material phenomena have ceased to exist. In its true essence, matter, too, is motion, and if this motion comes to a stop, matter must necessarily cease to exist. As long as the three-dimensional, material world exists its immutable law is that of unrest, of movement.
Elisabeth Haich and Selvarajan Yesudian
(Bo Ghar from life in ancient Egypt)
'The fact that the creative force manifests itself on each and every
level of innumerable possibilities means there are countless different
wave lengths, wave forms, and frequencies. And as long as we are in the
body, with its limited perceptive ability, we can perceive only a certain
number of these wave forms because our organs of sense are limited. Whether
some form of vibration appears to us as "immaterial energy"
or as solid "matter" depends upon our own idea and the impression
of something which is basically nothing but "movement", "vibration",
or "frequency".
'The shorter the waves in which a form of energy manifests itself the
less our consciousness records a sensation of matter. To the vibrations
that are transmitted directly to our consciousness by our organs of sense
we give names according to the sensations we feel: matter, sound, electricity,
heat, taste, smell, light. The still higher, immaterial energies and radiations,
perceptible only by means of our brain and nerve centres, we call thought
waves, idea waves. Beyond them there are still higher, more penetrating
rays and frequencies, all the way up to the very highest all-pervading
frequencies of the divine-creative power: life itself! We can only perceive
these frequencies as a state of consciousness.
'So, throughout the universe, countless varieties of vibrations are at
work, ranging from the shortest to the longest wave length. Every form
of creation, beginning with the celestial bodies and ranging all the way
down to the tiniest monocellular creature—all the myriad manifestations
of creation are the effects of various forms of these rays. We live in
these various rays whether we know it or not; even more, these forms of
energy have built and formed us human beings and are constantly at work
in our body, our mind, and our entire being. The whole universe consists
of these various vibrations. The source of these creative vibrations we
call God.
'God himself stands above all manifestations of life and rests in himself
in absolute equilibrium without time and without space. But he is constantly
radiating himself out into material forms in order to give these forms
life. As God is omnipresent and fills the entire universe, everything
that is in the universe is penetrated and filled by God. Nothing can exist
without being in God and without God's penetrating it, as God is everywhere
present and nothing can displace or dislodge him from his own presence.
Consequently, every point offers a possibility that God may manifest himself
through it, and everything that exists in our perceptible world carries
this point as its own centre within itself. From this point, there began
its first manifestation, its creation, its fall from equilibrium.
'This aspect of God who creates the material world and gives it life by
penetrating it, that is, the actual life hi us and in all creatures, we
call the "higher self". Expressions like "God", "creator",
"universal self", "higher self" or the "creative
principle" all mean one and the same divinity in its various aspects.
'The energies radiating from the centre are still highly spiritual in
the centre and of the highest frequencies. But the farther out they radiate
from the centre, the more material they become ... until these radiating
energies are gradually changed into matter. In this way the radiating
power limits itself, and at the edge of manifestation farthest removed
from the centre it becomes a hard, material rind or crust. For this reason,
the picture—the "name"—of God who manifests himself
in the visible world is a circle, an inner circle of higher powers surrounded
by a hard, material rind or crust.
'Expressed in letters, the symbol is OM.
'All creatures, from the central suns down to monocellular beings, are
built according to this principle. Look at a cross-section of our earth.
In the centre, the mighty forces are still in the evolutionary stage of
the fire circle. Next come the gaseous regions, then those of the molten
or liquid circles, and the outer-form is the rind of hard matter. But
I want to tell you too that another opposing force—centripetal force—is
also active at the same time, drawing all material manifestations inward
towards itself. And if hard matter were not sufficiently resistant, all
manifestations of life would be drawn into their own centres and disappear.
Even our earth, with all the forms of life upon it, would suffer this
fate. The resistance of matter prevents this from happening, and only
for this reason is it possible at all for creation to exist and life to
have come forth here on this hard, material crust of the earth. Don't
forget the resistance of matter, because we shall talk about it again.
'Here is another example to illustrate the inner structure of material
forms: a section through the spinal column of any vertebrate shows the
same construction, the extremely fine substance of the marrow of the back
bone carrying the creative power of life, developed and protected by the
hard crust of bone. Whatever bone you cut—be it skull, vertebra
or leg bone—you will find the same cross section.
'If you cut the stem of a plant, you will come upon the same pattern.
Have you ever looked at trees after they have been felled? The inner structure
of the tree is exactly the same: radiating from the centre are circles
of vital energy, fed by the finer matter of the tree's innermost substance.
The annual rings reflect the yearly radiation of life in the tree that
takes place very spring, surrounded and protected by the outer ring of
hard bark.
'Growth always starts from the centre and radiates outward. The innermost
source of all powers and manifestations is God.
'This aspect of God, who is clothed in matter and makes living beings
out of created forms and which we call the higher self (Logos) is what
draws us back into our own centre, since we have fallen from the divine
unity, from the state of paradise. It is the heavenly bridegroom for whom
the human soul longs. One should never mistake this divine self for the
personal "I" which hi itself has no true existence and is merely
an imaginary being.
'The vital source behind every form of manifestation, be it a sun, planet,
human being, animal, plant life or inorganic matter is one and the same
God, the same divine self.
'Although the same God is everywhere present in every creature, he is
manifest in countless different variations, because God reveals himself
on every single level on which manifestation is possible and the created
forms manifested on these various levels reveal only as much of God as
each form can consciously experience and bear of the divine creative force,
corresponding to its own level. To consciously experience force means
being this force and simultaneously radiating it hi all directions, including
into one's own body. For this reason, the body too must have adequate
power of resistance; otherwise the radiations of the self would burn and
destroy it. 'Hence the bodies of the various manifestations of life are
not made hi the same way. On the contrary the matter composing them is
of different degrees of resistance, corresponding hi each case to the
level of consciousness of the manifestation of life concerned. You know
that the chemical composition of matter determines which vibrations a
body can support. When a body is subjected to a radiation in excess of
its resistance, this harms its entire nerve system, and can lead to a
nervous breakdown and even to mental derangement. When the number of vibrations
of this force exceeds the scope of an octave the force even becomes lethal.
This is why, when we want to initiate a person into a higher degree of
divine power, we must first prepare his body, subjecting it among other
things to a chemical process, in order that the difference will not be
more than one octave at the most. Otherwise he dies. 'In the material
world there are four levels of manifestation which we call matter, vegetable
life, animal life, and human life, depending on the outward appearance
and the degree of consciousness attained. Compared with the human being,
we can hardly speak at all of the "consciousness" of matter,
and yet a crystal may serve to show that matter too has a sort of consciousness.
Each level of manifestation of life is characterized by its own degree
of consciousness which is one octave removed from the next. Only man has
the power to manifest several degrees of consciousness, all the way up
to the divine level. If We keep in mind the intervals—octaves—by
which we classify levels of evolution, we find that man, as a category,
occupies four steps of the great ladder of evolution reaching from earth
up to heaven; furthermore we see that each step corresponds to one octave
on the scale of vibrations. Man knows about these four steps or degrees
and has given them names: man characterized by his intellect; genius,
characterized by intuition; prophet, characterized by his wisdom and universal
love; and the last and highest degree, that of the God man, characterized
by his omniscience and omnipotence.
'Thus, in the material world, we find four manifestations which together
reveal seven octaves of vibration.
'Every creature emits the vibrations of which it is made, that is, those
which it consciously supports. Matter, the very lowest degree of consciousness,
manifests itself only through contraction, cooling off, and hardening.
'The plant manifests itself on two levels; the material level and the
level of force—vegetative force—that gives life to it. The
plant manifests material vibrations unconsciously; it carries its body
like a dress, but its level of consciousness is the vegetative level of
force giving life to matter. Force manifested on this level has three
distinctive aspects by which it can be recognized wherever it appears:
the search for food, the taking in of food, and the assimilation or digestion
of food.
'The animal manifests three forces, the material, the vegetative and animal.
It has a body, it seeks out its food, eats and digests and is conscious
on the animal level: it has emotions, instincts, urges, feelings, sympathy,
antipathy and desires. The animal is conscious in the third developmental
stage, only one degree lower than man.
'The average man stands one octave of vibrations higher: he is conscious
on the mental level. He has intellect and the ability to think. But at
the same time he manifests the three other levels. On the material, he
has a body; on the vegetative, he seeks out his food, eats it and digests
it; on the animal, he has emotions, drives, sympathy, antipathy and desires.
But his most outstanding characteristic is his intellect. Man thinks consciously.
With the next degree of development, man makes a great jump: he lifts
his consciousness out of the world of effects into the plane of causes.
He draws on the divine source of the causal plan and manifests this force
that appears in his consciousness as intuition. With the help of his intellect
and spiritual power* he is able to express his experiences on a higher
plane in words and transmit them to his fellow men. He can also prove
the existence of his intuition in other arts: without dimensions, in music,
as a composer; in two dimensions with lines and colours, as a painter;
in three dimensional forms as a sculptor or as a dancer. People call the
creative person a genius. He manifests the five octaves of vibration of
the material, vegetative animal, mental and causal forces.
'The degree of consciousness of the next higher octave of vibrations,
in the language of human beings, is called that of a prophet. The prophet
manifests all the forces that work on the previously mentioned planes
of consciousness, but he is also conscious on the next higher level too,
the plane of divine wisdom and universal love. We must be careful never
to confuse this universal love, which is manifested on the sixth plane
and is a completely spiritual power, with the "love" of the
third, animal plane which is the manifestation of animal instincts. This
latter "love" is a vibration operating three levels lower at
the source of which is the urge to propagate the species. Such "love"
is desire for possession and always only seeks the body. It forces a person
to come close to the loved one, and embrace, kiss, and hug him or her—in
a word—to possess.
'Whoever is subject to this kind of love is still living in his consciousness
in the condition of dividedness and separation and seeks a complementary
physical partner in order to find satisfaction. This love always seeks
to take, to have something, to possess. Love in the sixth plane of manifestation,
the love of the prophet, does not come from a condition of division, but
from the primordial condition of divine unity I Hence, this love is universal,
always giving, never taking, needs no supplement, no physical manifestation,
but always radiates from the consciousness of divine all-unity. People
who are conscious on this plane do not want to possess anybody; they feel
themselves one with the infinite all.
'The seventh and most perfect manifestation of God is the completely conscious
man: the God-man. All other forms of revelation manifest only transformed
vibrations, only part of God. A God-man is a person who manifests God—
his own divine self—completely and perfectly through a perfect consciousness;
one who experiences and radiates the divine creative forces in their primordial
untransformed vibrations and frequencies. He is supremely conscious; no
part of him is unconscious. 'Only man has the ability to master and to
radiate all seven octaves of vibration, as the nervous centres corresponding
to the seven octaves of transformed and untransformed creative power exist
in his nervous system. On the other hand, he is only able to radiate vibrations
on the levels on which he has become conscious, because until he becomes
conscious on a given level, the corresponding nerve centres remain in
a latent condition. Thus the average human being will radiate vibrations
up to the fourth plane, the genius up to the fifth, the prophet up to
the sixth, and only the God-man is able consciously to radiate all seven
octaves and to radiate the divine creative power, according to his own
will, in its untransformed form or to transform it, to change it, and
transmit it in lower (transformed) frequencies.
'Your father's staff that you have seen consists of a material—a
kind of brass —that has the power of transmitting the radiation
corresponding to every plane. It is so constructed that, according to
the will of the user, it can transmit untransformed radiations, either
diminished or amplified as desired by the user.
'The staff can be a blessing or a curse. This depends on who uses it.
An initiated person is able to radiate, in any desired degree, all forces
of creation— from the highest divine forces to the lowest ultra-material
forces with this staff, because within his own being he possesses all
these forces and can consciously transmit them to the staff. Out of the
whole gamut of these vibrations, the human being with his organs of sense,
can perceive only a part. Vibrations either above or below this part are
ones he can only experience as an emotional condition. Thus for example,
he experiences the very highest divine frequencies as universal love.
On the other hand, the very lowest frequencies, those of ultra-matter,
are lower than the frequencies which our eyes and sensory nerves perceive
as matter. As they are outside our scale of sensory perception, we experience
them in our emotions as hate. An initiated person will always use the
staff properly and always radiate the force needed to create something
good ... a blessing. The ultra material vibration he will use when necessary
as an invisible, insulating, impenetrable protective wall. With the staff
the initiated can dominate all forces of nature, amplify them or neutralize
them.
'Every creature on earth possesses these powers, but only hi a form corresponding
to his degree of development. He utilizes these powers too, but is not
conscious of them. Or have you ever seen a person who gave thought to
how it is possible to raise his feet or his arms? Or that he could—even
though for only a short time—remove his whole body from the earth
... by jumping? Lift your arm and observe how you do it. Isn't it true
that you contract your muscles and they lift your arm? Every movement
of your body is brought about with a contraction of your muscles. But
what contracts your muscles? Think a minute, my daughter, what?'
'My will, Father.'
'Right. Your will. But if I ask you what your will is, can you give me
an answer?'
'Father, I have often observed what happens when I want something. But
I have only been able to notice that when I want something, I can send
out a force and give this force direction. For example, as you just said,
if I want to raise my arm from its relaxed hanging position—it hangs
because the earth is attracting it—then this force which flows out
of me through my will flows into my arm and forces my muscles to contract
and through this to raise my arm.' 'Very true,' says Ptahhotep, 'By virtue
of the fact that your will power has flowed into your arm and muscles,
you have conquered the enormous gravitational power of the earth on your
arm. This is true when you jump too, but only for a short time, because
your will power is only greater than the earth's gravitational pull for
a short time. So you see time consumes your will power transformed into
physical power. Time does that! And space? You've used your power to raise
your arm, or your body, in altitude, to remove it from the earth, hence
to move it further in space. Thus you see that your power is consumed
by two great factors: time and space. If you could amplify your will power
and store it within your body, you could conquer the earth's gravitational
pull for a longer time and remain at a greater distance from the earth.
You could glide through the air I You can't do that now because you haven't
yet developed consciousness on this divine plane. The initiated, on the
other hand, who are conscious on the divine plane, can draw directly on
this infinite eternal source of power, without transforming it, and when
they wish, float through the air just as long as they direct their will
power against the gravitational pull of the earth.
'The initiated person knows all vibrations and possesses consciously developed
organs with which to use these powers. You know, for example, the power
of thought with which we communicate telepathically. These powers too
we control through a corresponding higher organ of our brain. Human beings
don't even know they have such organs. The initiated is able to radiate
the very highest of all powers, the divine, creative power. This is the
power and radiation of life, of eternal being. The entire universe is
alive and continues to exist by virtue of this power. To make conscious
use of it lies only within the capabilities of the God-man, the only creature
that is, in his consciousness, identical with God and radiates this power
from his Godconsciousness, his cosmic all-consciousness. No other creature
could endure this power consciously.
'Every force has its materialization on earth, and we therefore find that
corresponding to all forces and vibrations there is a form of matter that
has the resistive strength to endure it and transmit it, or even has the
ability to store it and subsequently radiate it during a given length
of time. What people call this matter is of no significance. Out of it
are made the bodies of creatures and forms of manifestation corresponding
to the various levels of consciousness. But this is true not only of the
matter corresponding to their own level of consciousness, but also of
the matter that conducts the vibrations below this specific plane of consciousness
concerned. The matter of plants, for example, possesses a necessary resistive
force for the vibrations of the vegetative life force, and at the same
time for the vibrations of the matter, as the plant has a material body.
The nerves and the bodies of animals carry within themselves the animal
power corresponding to the animal level, and at the same time the vibrations
of the vegetative level an octave lower, as well as the vibrations of
the material plane a further octave lower.
'The nerves of the average human being, for example, have sufficient resistance
to carry the vibrations of the mental plane as well as the transformed
vibrations on each of the planes below—animal, vegetative and material.
With the mental energies he thinks and is conscious on this level; with
the animal energies he feels and experiences all emotional states; the
vegetative streams of force give life to his body, and finally his body
is built of material forces. And so it goes higher and higher up to the
God-man who consciously uses all his brain and nervous centres and is
able to direct the very highest vibrations of life, which has its central
seat in his spinal column, without transforming them, into his nervous
centres and into his body. The material of his body possesses the resistance
to carry the very highest, divine force as well as—naturally enough—
the transformed vibration of the other six planes of manifestation.
'Thus the bodies of people in the various planes of development, only
appear to consist of the same matter. Actually they are composed of different
chemical elements whose resistance always corresponds to the level of
consciousness of the spirit dwelling within.
'The fact that the body of the God-man is able not only to bear the highest
frequencies but also the transformed vibrations of all other octaves,
means that there must be a form of matter with the resistive force necessary
to withstand and to conduct the divine-creative force as well as all the
other transformed frequencies of the lower octaves, without being dematerialized.
Hence, the sons of God, in their homeland, invented a material, a kind
of brass, of which they constructed devices for storing or radiating,
either amplified or diminished, the very highest creative frequencies,
either in their original or in transformed manifestation. These devices
are so constructed that they keep the creative force in pure unchanged
form. Consequently, over a long period, they act as a source of divine
power—like life itself. Because the very highest of these devices
which carries and radiates the creative force represents a perfect union—as
perfect as a marriage—between the divine and the material frequencies—
between God and the earth—we call this incredibly powerful conductor
of force that is charged with the frequency of the divine self the 'Ark
of the covenant'.
'Now you know why we keep these devices so secret. The God-man who has
developed his highest abilities can use these devices with impunity, as
the ark of the covenant contains and radiates the same force as he himself,
the force which he himself is. A person on a lower level, however, if
he were merely to touch the ark, would fall over dead momentarily as if
struck by lightning. The divine frequencies would instantly burn out his
nerves and he would suffer a "shock". The same thing happens
when this frequency is liberated from its state of isolation in the spinal
column and strikes one's nerves untransformed. The person or animal or
even a plant concerned dies immediately. People call this kind of death
"a stroke". They sense that some unknown power has struck the
person like lightning. This power is the river of life itself which normally
is isolated within the spinal column—or within the innermost channel
in the case of plants—and normally only flows into the body in suitably
transformed condition. This force only breaks out in case of sickness
and causes the "stroke".
'For the same reason uninitiated people cannot be allowed in the vicinity
of our devices. And even more! As these devices radiate the most powerful
energy, we must keep them carefully hidden behind massive walls of rock
providing the greatest insulation. Life energy itself has a lethal effect
when it strikes a form of matter which doesn't have the necessary resistance.
The matter is dematerialized, dissolved.
'The ark and still other tools thus consist of a material which—without
being dematerialized—can be charged with the divine-creative energy.
The ark radiates untransformed creative energy and has the effect of giving
life or destroying it depending on the dosage. This force has the same
character of vibration as that of the human will which is capable of conquering
everything, including the gravitational pull of the earth even though
for only a short time. The ark of the covenant radiates this power magnified
a thousand times. And just as the earth through its gravitational pull
affects matter and attracts it, we can work against the gravitational
pull of the earth in every form of matter without exception and consequently
overcome its weight and render it weightless for a shorter or longer period
of time. When necessary, we can even do the opposite, i.e. work with the
gravitational pull of the earth and increase the weight of an object as
much as we want through the ultramaterial rays. In this way even the greatest
blocks of stone are rendered weightless for a period of time so that the
largest buildings you can think of can be built with the greatest of ease,
or the weight of the stones can be increased to such an extent that they
sink into the earth. For example, when we want to dig a well, we don't
have to dig out the earth. We simply take a stone of suitable size and
increase its weight so that it sinks into the earth until it reaches the
desired depth.
'With the help of the ark of the covenant, this enormous source of power,
we can also transform energies devoid of matter, as for example, the rays
of light, into matter. And, inversely, we can dissolve this matter and
convert it to energies active during aeons of time.
'Look at this lamp. Just as the sun itself for billions of years has been
sending out rays, some of which are converted to rays of light in our
atmosphere through transformations of energy, in the same way through
the matter being dissolved —dematerialized—in this lamp, energies
are created which are converted to rays of light in the air.
'This process could continue in this lamp for ages and ages and consequently
it would go on giving light for aeons of time were it not written in the
history of the earth that we shall have to leave the earth for thousands
of years and destroy all our equipment. Were this not the case, the ignorant
sons of men would again cause unspeakable destruction.
'There will be a lot in the remains of our culture which coming generations
will not understand. For example, the way we get such a mirror-smooth
surface on even the hardest stones. The joints between them fit so accurately
there isn't even a crack the size of the thickness of a hair between them.
They will be greatly puzzled at how our "slaves", working only
"by hand", have been able to cut stones so precisely. Because
the sons of men make slaves of their fellow-men, they will believe that
we too have put slaves to work. For thousands of years it won't dawn on
them that we simply dematerialize the superfluous stone on the surface
and are thus able to get hairline accuracy on the edges and faces of even
the hardest stones without the slightest human effort. We adjust our instruments
to the desired width and depth of the stone and everything beyond the
dimensions we want is merely dematerialized. This is very simple as soon
as you know the true nature of the different energies including that of
matter. But this knowledge is a blessing only in the hands of a knowing
person. He knows too that love means life, and hate means death. Only
initiates of the highest degree can be architects. As a matter of fact,
to build with slaves we wouldn't need to be initiates! We don't work with
slaves but with the forces of nature.
'Thanks to these instruments of ours we are able to create every form
of manifestation. The manifestation depends only on how long and from
what distance we put the creative energy to work. The sons of men take
it for granted they can come into the temple with their sicknesses and
we make them well again. Sickness means that the vibrations of the body
have got out of harmony. We restore the inharmonious part of the body
to its own proper vibration and the person gets well. Every organ has
its own characteristic vibration. This means that every organ is as it
is because it has a certain characteristic vibration, and this vibration
is constantly acting within it and maintaining it. When this vibration
changes, the organ concerned becomes diseased.
'We can also regulate the weather on earth, making clear blue sky or,
when necessary, clouds and rain. The sons of men see the lightning, hear
the thunder of the pyramid and are happy because they know this means
the blessing of rain. They live in the secure knowledge that the temple
will take care of all their needs: their health, the rain that blesses
them, and even their spiritual well-being.'
'Father of my Soul,' I now ask, 'how do you charge this ark of the covenant
with creative energy?'
Ptahhotep looks at me with a penetrating glance and says: 'I can see you
already know how we charge the ark of the covenant. I already told you:
there is only one source on earth that is able to radiate this power and
that is the God-man himself. It is the duty of the high priest to charge
the ark with divine-creative power. He either drives his own high power
directly into the ark or he achieves the same result with the help of
the staff of life through converting an absolutely positive flow of power
flowing from his hand at a lower vibration, conducting it through the
staff and there converting it into divine-creative power. For in his daily
life, even the perfect God-man only radiates creative power in a transformed
state. Only when his spiritual forces are concentrated and in his consciousness
he is identical with God, only then does the divine force radiate in its
primordial vibration. He must therefore be in a condition of cosmic all-consciousness
when he wants to radiate the creative force.
If the uninitiated sons of men were to see him in this condition they
would run away terrified as at such times the God-man radiates such celestial,
divine light that ordinary people can't stand the sight of him. If uninitiated
people were to touch an initiate in this divine condition of being, they
would momentarily fall over dead, just as if they had touched the ark
of the covenant.
'Thus when an initiate radiates his rays of life for healing purposes,
he withdraws into a state of concentration such that his radiation can
be borne by people without harm; that is the power he directs to the-
appropriate nerve centres he raises up to the level of creative power
with the help of the staff. For the staff is so constructed that it can
not only conduct the rays but also transmit them in a transformed state,
amplified or diminished, at will. Hence, an initiate doesn't need to enter
the divine state of being in order to conduct the highest radiation of
life into the ark of the covenant; on the contrary, he can enter a lower
state of concentration and then direct the power corresponding to this
level into the ark of the covenant, after raising it with the help of
the staff up to the level of creative energy. When the ark is charged
in this manner, it radiates for a long time this highest and strongest
energy, as a source of all other forces on earth.
'An initiate can produce and control even the most varied frequencies
with the staff, as the staff is an ark of the covenant in miniature form,
except for the fact that creative energy is not stored in it as in the
case of the ark of the covenant. With the help of the staff, a human being
could even convert his lower powers into creative force if he could radiate
in a pure, positive and completely selfless manner power that is several
octaves lower. This is because the staff always radiates the power that
a human being puts into it. If a primitive and selfish person were to
get possession of the staff, he would transmit his own negative radiations
arising from his selfishness—possibly even in amplified form—and
thus cause sicknesses, epidemics, earthquakes or even greater destruction
as the necromancers and practitioners of black magic once did in the home
of the divine race.
'Do you understand now why the initiates keep their science so secret
from the uninitiated.'
'I understand, Father. And it is now quite clear to me how my father revived
the half-dead boy. In his state of high concentration, father directed
his radiation, in magnified state, into the child. It worked like a miracle.
The child was charged with vital energy, and his exhaustion disappeared
immediately. But, Father of my Soul, what is going to happen when the
sons of men take over the government? Are you going to destroy the magic
staff, as father said, when he told me the initiates are going to destroy
all their instruments? What a shame that people won't be able to enjoy
the blessing of these powers!'
'My child,' says Ptahhotep, 'every creature lives in conditions that are
exactly adapted to its state of development. If we were to betray the
secret of the staff to the sons of men, they would immediately use it
to do harm to each other and to themselves. The sons of men aren't ready
for this knowledge and won't be for a long time to come. The staff we
are now using will be taken out of Egypt by the last initiate in possession
of the secret knowledge, along with the ark of the covenant. He will have
no possibility to build a pyramid. On the contrary, he will make a small
cover for the ark to insulate it as well as possible. He will charge the
ark to a much lesser degree and will cause it to be carried during his
migrations by means of long wooden poles as handles. When this last initiate
feels he is approaching death, he will destroy his staff. For a time the
ark will continue to radiate the energy with which it has been charged,
and the uninitiated will continue to carry it about in various countries
for a long time until little by little they notice that it no longer has
any power. Then even the last remains of the ark will be destroyed. 'In
times to come people will learn about the "magic staff" and
the "ark of the covenant" only through records of earlier times.
They will consider all this as a fairy tale and continue to tell it from
one generation to another. But they will still vaguely remember that once
there was an "ark of the covenant" in which there dwelt the
power of the living God. And they'll also remember there was once a "magic
staff" or as we call it a "staff of life" with which the
initiates, the "magicians", performed miracles. From records
from earlier times people will know or dimly sense that "the staff"
represented power over all forces of nature.
'In later times when people want to symbolize the greatest power, they
will place a staff—a sceptre—in their hand as a token of power.
In those times to come, however, their staff—their sceptre—will
only be an empty symbol of power. The true power said force of the staff
will no longer be known to them. Only after thousands of years will a
descendant from the tribe of the Sons of God be reincarnated; he will
discover these truths for the people of his time and will make a new "magic
staff". Until then, however, for thousands of years, there will be
a strange kind of people who, either to entertain or to cheat, will call
themselves "magicians" and will pretend they are performing
their magic tricks with the help of a "magic wand". They will
thus be imitating what once actually existed.
'They will hold a "magic wand" in their hand and go through
the motions of drawing magic powers from this wand. They will also use
"magic words", imitating our magic formulas. But people will
only learn the true gigantic power of the word centuries later when the
fallen members of the divine race are reincarnated—those who are
now living here—and will remember in their subconscious the truths
which in that time will represent ancient records. 'They will prove that
their memories are correct. The time will come when the sons of men rediscover
and repossess all knowledge, even the very highest. Even then, of course,
this knowledge will remain an unintelligible secret for the ignorant masses,
and in uninitiated hands these rediscovered truths will be a curse. But
after all, this is the path of mankind, through many troubles and sorrows,
which people make for themselves. Little by little they will learn they
must not play with divine power. They'll come to know that these powers
should be used in full seriousness with dignity and dedication. For God
gives mankind all, even himself, as a blessing; only people, in their
ignorance, make a curse out of everything!'
'Father of my Soul,' I ask, 'you said that the pyramids were made of thick
blocks of stone in order to insulate the equipment by means of which the
penetrating frequencies are radiated. But how then can you conduct the
radiations to the outside?'
'The thick walls of the pyramids all contain shafts and tunnels through
which we conduct out the force of the ark of the covenant and the other
supplementary equipment which radiates energy. With the aid of these shafts
and tunnels we also control weather. The positive and negative tunnels
are built in different directions; when the positive and negative forces
flow through them, they cause clouds to form and bring about the desired
rain. The equalization of these tensions causes flashes of lightning accompanied
by great noise. That is why people hear thunder coming from the pyramid.
The other pyramids have been built for various other installations.' 'What's
going to happen to the pyramids when the sons of men come into power in
our country and the ark of the covenant and all other instruments are
destroyed? Will the pyramids stand empty? And what's to become of the
high priest and the other priests and initiates?' I ask.
'All except for the largest pyramid where the ark of the covenant is now
kept and where initiation is given, the pyramids won't remain empty. When
all our instruments for the radiation of divine creative energy are removed,
the last initiated Pharaohs will have themselves entombed in one of these
pyramids. Their bodies, permeated through and through by divinely creative
force will continue—as the force will not be consumed—to radiate
the supreme power just as the ark of the covenant does. Thus their bodies
will continue in secret to act as tremendous sources of power, protecting
this continent from evil influences. The radiation of well preserved and
holy bodies will help our country keep its power for thousands of years.
But in the course of time most of these tombs will be destroyed by ignorant
people.' 'And what's going to happen to the great pyramid, Father?'
Ptahhotep looks off in the distance for a while as if he were observing
things there. Then his heavenly glance sweeps back to me and he says:
'When the time has come for all secret instruments to be destroyed, and
when the priest and initiates still serving in the temple at that time
take their pilgrim's staff and set out for far-away places, the high priest
and his deputy will close the rock entrance of the great pyramid from
the inside so that no son of man can find it. Then, after fulfilling their
last duties, they will dematerialize their own bodies in just the way
you've often seen the offering on the altar in the temple court dematerialized.
Just a flash, then a little white cloud that soon disappears —not
a trace of ash or anything else remains behind. Thus the interior of the
great pyramid will be closed off from human sight for thousands of years.
Nevertheless, our initiations will not cease. Mature souls will continue
to be initiated here—not physically, of course, but on the higher
spiritual plane. These people will experience their initiation as a dream
or a vision.'
Ptahhotep ceases speaking, and for a long time we look into each other's
eyes. I understand a lot that he doesn't want to say ... but I still have
another question: 'Father of my soul, is there a special reason why all
pyramids are built in the same form? Why aren't they built in a cubic
shape, for example, like other buildings?'
Ptahhotep smiles: 'Not in cubic form? But the pyramids are built in cubic
form! But I'll have to explain that to you next time. You've had enough
today.' I see that Ptahhotep has ended his instruction, but I still remain.
I'd like to have him show me the use of the staff and the ark of the covenant.
He looks at me with a smile and says: 'The time will come when you'll
be permitted to know about the construction of the ark of the covenant
and the staff of life. That will come after you've been initiated. But
the use of these instruments is restricted to those who've reached the
seventh degree after initiation through their own efforts. These secrets
must not come into dangerous hands. Be patient. Time exists only in our
thinking, but still everything takes time to mature.'
He blesses me, and I leave.