The Three Kayas (and the Emanational Bodies), Part 2

March 12, 2015
In Part 1 of this article, I made it clear that the Three Kayas (The Buddhist Trikaya and Christian Trinity) are outside time and space – uncreated, unborn and unmanifest. I also made it clear that the Three Kayas are consubtantial, or coessential, meaning that it could be said that, ultimately, there is only the Dharmakaya (or Father), and that the Sambhogakaya (or Holy Spirit) and the Nirmanakaya (or Son) are simply the Dharmakaya (or Father) in, respectively, the Dimensions of Energy (Sambhogakaya, or Spirit) and Soul (Nirmanakaya, or Son).

When creation (unfathomably) emerges from the Uncreate (Dharmakaya-Sambhogakaya, or Father-Spirit, or Siva-Shakti), the Uncreate remains unimplicated. When Man appears, the Body, or Dimension, of Nirmanakaya, or Soul, is “implanted” in a life (or form)-vehicle, so that Nirvana, or Heaven, can manifest on Earth.

Soul (or immanent Consciousness) is implanted in Man, but covering Man’s Soul, or Self, by functioning as veiling sheaths, are several “Bodies”(Causal, Higher Mental, Lower Mental, Astral, Pranic, and Physical), which effectively prevent him from recognizing himself as Soul (or Self, or Son, or Buddha, or Nimanakaya).… Read the full article

The Three Kayas (or Bodies, or Dimensions, or Hypostases), Part 1

March 7, 2015
Mahayana Buddhism, around 300 CE, developed a three-dimensional approach to understanding Ultimate Reality and its relation to phenomenal reality. This three-dimensional approach was termed the Trikaya (Triple Body), and to the cognoscenti it’s clear that the Trikaya mirrors the Christian Holy Trinity, which (more than coincidentally, I’m sure) also emerged circa the same time.

I’ve read numerous explanations of the Trikaya, but none as clear and demystifying as mine – because, unlike any other living writers or teachers I’ve encountered in my deep and wide studies, I truly grok the Trikaya.

The Trikaya consists of the Dharmakaya, the Sambhogakaya, and the Nirmanakaya. Each of these Kayas (or Bodies, or Dimensions, or Hypostases) pertains to the unborn/uncreated/unmanifest Reality in a particular “phase,” or vehicle, of expression. The Trikaya is always outside of time and space; otherwise it would be not be a “Holy Trinity,” but rather an un-Holy one. But for clarification’s sake, it should be pointed out that “outside of time and space” also means “in the world, but not of the world.”… Read the full article

An Indictment of “Progressivism”

February 26, 2015

[My Review of Rene Guenon's "The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times."]

A fan of my Amazon reviews, unhappy with my less-than-positive three-star review of Rene Guenon’s “The Essential Rene Guenon,” suggested that I needed to reconsider my assessment of the renowned French spiritual philosopher – and so, as he suggested, I read “The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times.”

In this text, a scathing critique, Guenon blisters early-to-mid- 20th-century Western society, culture, and values and argues for the importance of true, esoteric spiritual tradition. Guenon blasts egalitarianism, moral relativism, multi-culturalism, neo-spirituality, pseudo-initiation, simplicity over depth, humanism over super-humanism, rationalism over super-rationalism, substance (or matter) over essence (or spirit); in short, quantity over quality.

According to Guenon, so-called “progress” is euphemism for “profound decadence, continuously accelerating, which is dragging humanity toward the pit where pure quantity reigns.”… Read the full article

The Humility Hoax

February 13, 2015

I am a spiritual teacher, and I’m not shy about advertising the fact that I can find no peers, no fellow living teachers with comparable understanding of how it all comes together in the field of mystic-philosophy. But, of course, I receive a great deal of flak from my critics for my hubris and my penchant for “telling it like it is.” To counter this flak, I’ve put together some quotes (see below) from legendary gurus and philosophers, who make it clear that humility is hardly a great virtue.

I first realized that humility was overrated when I came across the following quote while in high school:  “As soon as you think you have humility, you’ve lost it.” The State, Church, and Media like to push the ideal of humility, because pseudo-humble, cattle-like people are easy to control. But because I have little regard for the State, Church, and Media, I felt moved to write this article.

Ayn Rand

I’ll start with a quote from Ayn Rand, who, unabashedly, billed herself as the “greatest philosopher since Aristotle”:

“There is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun.… Read the full article

Paul Case’s “Occult Fundamentals and Spiritual Unfoldment” (02/01/2015 Amazon Review)

February 1, 2015
This the third Paul Foster Case text I have reviewed at Amazon (see my two-star review of “The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages” and my three-star review of “Esoteric Secrets of Meditation and Magic”), and it contains some interesting and enlightening material germane to the brand of “electrical” spirituality that I teach, along with some occult “fundamentals” that I don’t fully resonate with.

On the first page, Case writes:

“We live in an electric universe. Our bodies are electrical machines. The food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the houses over our heads everything in our world is made of electricity. Our senses tell us we are surrounded by things innumerable: the Ageless Wisdom declares, ‘There is only One Thing.’ Modern science confirms this ancient teaching. Physicists now picture the universe as a great ocean of pulsing, vibrating electromagnetic energy, and psychologists tell us that this One Thing, electro-magnetism, presents itself to our consciousness in the particular forms which we call ‘things’, because our senses are what they are.… Read the full article

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