The First Mountain Begins

 

Before I begin I should explain what the process of these mountains is.
 
There are three stages to the Gnostic path, this is the path that Jesus illustrated with the events of his life, the path to the awakening.
 
Each stage is symbolised by a mountain because you have to climb in order to ascend and then you have to descend to be able to climb the next stage. Each stage gets progressively more difficult, but with each stage the spiritual rewards are greater.
 
On the first stage we incarnate part of being known as the spirit, atman, or the master, on the second stage we incarnate the Christ (this is what is referred to as the second coming) and on the third stage we incarnate the divine Trinity, father, son and holy spirit.

With the completion of the third stage we return to the source, the light, the absolute.

One night I had a dream in which I was shown a symbol with the colour red. In a practice of Alchemy I felt a strong pain in my coccyx bone, it persisted for a while. Soon after while sleeping I had another of those dreams where I was as awake as when in the physical world, but unaware of being in a dream, in it I was climbing up a mountain, it was very rocky and had a pointed peak. About halfway up I met Rabolu, he gave me a lecture and drew on the whiteboard the symbol of three mountains. When I awoke I realised that it was symbolising the start of the three mountains.

Another night the same three triangles appeared on a rock, symbolising that they would be formed from a base of rock, the philosophers stone in other words. So it seemed the first Mountain had really begun. There was no wonderful feeling, nothing felt substantially changed, it felt more like a progression from one stage to another.
 
The study centre where we taught needed decorating, so we got some carpets and set to work painting. In the main lecture room the walls had patterned wallpaper on them, I painted over the pattern only to find that as the paint dried, the pattern showed through. So I repainted the walls, I had set out to treat this decorating as an exercise in concentration, so I tried to concentrate upon every brush stroke, it felt almost painful to bring myself back to the awareness of what I was doing as my mind kept wandering, but as it did, I kept bringing myself back. The pattern showed through the second coat, so I applied a third, it appeared through that too. A friend suggested I paint it with grey to block out the pattern underneath, so I did, it looked better, but there was still some pattern showing, so I put another coat of grey on, followed by the actual colour, still some pattern showed through, I didn't get dispondant, I just kept concentrating on what I was doing, by the seventh coat, the walls were evenly covered and looked clear of the pattern. I managed to sustain a good level of concentration and had been unconcerned with either success or faliure.
 
That night as I slept I saw Rabolu in a dream, he floated into the air and started doing somersaults. I thought, “This is the astral plane.” I jumped slightly and floated, I floated out of the house, I kept rising upwards and started going some distance above the earth, I felt that I could keep going up into space if I wished.
 
The colours seemed brighter and more vibrant than anything I had ever seen before. I looked at my hands, they looked the same as my phyical ones, I examined the left with the right, it felt solid, but had a slightly strange feel to it, almost rubbery. This was not a lunar, phantom, astral body that some had said we have, but I didn't know how it could be otherwise.
 
I looked down and saw a fairground below, it was as though the whole world was summarised in that fairground - persuing pleasures, a life that was illusory and not real. Yet everyone was in it, that was where I lived my life.
 
I wondered what I could do next, so I asked my divine Mother, the female aspect of my Being to take me where I needed to go. In an instant I was hurling downwards towards the ground, I was unafraid, it was so quick, as I hit the ground I went into it and passed into underground levels, there I saw my defects in the form of dangerous animals, I knew I would have to defeat and destroy all of these, there seemed so many, I passed through them deeper into the earth and arrived at their source, there is much that I cannot say, but I will say that the source is lust.
 
I came back to my body, later I was able to piece together some of the parts, to climb any mountain we first have to descend, we go through difficulties in the physical world, but we also descend internally, in the descent we discover much about our psychological defects, our egos, from there we have to climb up that rocky mountain.
 
With Alchemy we create solar bodies of substance which allow us to be in a higher aspect of the dimension where they are formed and to have a presence with continuity in that plane. We are normally born with phantom bodies, which is what many of the writers on out-of-body experiences refer to when they describe the astral body. They say the abyss is not real usually because they can't go there. We have a body for each dimension – physical (3rd), vital (4th), astral, mental (5th), causal, Buddhic (6th), Atmic (7th). We are born with four phantom bodies, physical, vital, astral and mental, they allow us to live, but to be able to contain superior spiritual parts we have to create solar bodies to replace them and for the Kundalini to be raised in us.
 
The Mountain has seven initiations (the eighth is a rest), with every initiation we have to create a body in a dimension starting with the physical, until we reach the seventh, with the completion of the formation of the body we can raise the kundalini, a spiritual force which is latent in everyones coccyx bone, until it reaches our midbrow. Those who tell you that the Kundalini can be raised in any other way are completely wrong.
 
When we have created all the bodies and raised the Kundalini in each of them we complete the first of the three mountains. This is the path that I refer to when I mention 'the path'. For more information read my book Secret Knowledge, Hidden Wisdom.
 
The body I had in that OBE was a solar one, as it had substance and its impossible to investigate the subterranian abyss without a solar body, moreover, to be separated from the entirety of ones egos in order to explore them, we have to go to the mental plane, not the astral, and that requires a solar mental body. I wondered how I could have done it as I had only recently started the first mountain, the only possibility could be that I was born with these two bodies already created.