Initiation
_AM: This is a new beginning.
_I: 10 days of the physical aspect of Aries. What are we facing?
_AM: Nothing difficult. But perhaps it does invite us to take action. As we said, Aries is an initiator: the astrological year begins with it, and the ancient calendar was based on the celebrations at the end of March and the beginning of April as the days when field activities, the basis of life, began. Home, comes from the words “in” (inside) and “ire” (go), that is: to get going. In English, “Beginning” comes from the verb ser (to be) and the proto-Germanic verb “ginanah” (to open). So, it would be something like “being in the opening.” This leads us to understand that something new begins here, which aims to be different from what came before. For this reason, Aries, from its center and axis, invites us to stop reacting, to start acting. Action is the key to this time, it is to initiate a force, an energy, a forward momentum.
_I: Today I'm having a hard time starting something... I've done several things already, but I feel like I can't handle myself.
_AM: Because you are not willing to start at all. You must put one foot forward and do something new, that you have not done before. Exhaustion is caused by reaction, the constant circle of repetition. When you put your energy into starting something new, different, your body lights up, acting, depositing its strength into it.
_I: What is, conceptually, the beginning? That is to say... When we ask ourselves: “what was the beginning of all things?”
_AM: This is a big question that everyone has asked themselves.
_I: Can you answer it?
_AM: Any way you start to explain how it all started, you'd be wrong.
_I: Why?
_AM: Because what I can explain to you about the beginning would not be an objective vision, but rather a subjective perception from my point of view of the origin.
_I: There are many origins, then?
_AM: That's right... But they all started with a thought, which we would translate into a wave, which moved everything. “First came the Word.” “The Universe was created by songs.” “In the beginning it was Om.” “Heaven and Earth emerged from divine songs.” “Vibration waves spread throughout the Cosmos.” “Mentalism manifested itself in the Word.” “First came the Silence, and from it arose the Voice.” But what happened is difficult to put into words, because all the words were there. And for this reason, each one in existence narrates his or her journey through this song.
_I: His existence is basically the narration of his perspective in relation to the origin...
_AM: And each step is carried out as an echo of that first pulse, and in turn, propelling itself towards the origin from which it came. You know very well what this process is called.
_I: How?
_AM: Initiation.
_I: Oh, the famous Initiation. Back in 2008, I think, I experienced my first initiation, in which I was suddenly confronted with seeing how the entire world that previously lived in my memories, in my ideas, manifested itself. It was around that time that I experienced firsthand what I previously believed was in my mind. It was a normal day, when I was eating pizza with friends, many of whom I had just met that same day, and one of them, out of nowhere and talking about very mundane topics, fell on the couch where he was sitting and began channeling a schoolmate who had died in an accident years before; companion that only two of us who were there knew. And after giving us the message he came to give us, a dark being took the body of this boy, and began to attack me. A very long story, but one that led us to leave the pizzas aside to begin an exorcism process. However, what happened was much more interesting. The story of this demon in relation to me came from a very old task in which he had felt betrayed by many, something that we had to resolve. And the boys who were there began to awaken their dormant potentials, such as clairvoyance, perception of other dimensions, channeling, and so many other things. What happened next began a full month of signs, messages, tasks, that took us throughout the city of Rosario (Argentina), a Da Vinci Code style adventure, mixed with Constantine and Harry Potter. I knew for the first time what a node was and what activating it entailed, I was aware of what potentials were, the group task, the activation of a network in a territory, the healing of history. Every step we took, every day, we discovered something new, and we understood our missions. Every day was a new adventure that led us to culminate in the temple of Freedom: the Flag Monument. There our mission culminated in a strange ceremony, where we managed to free that entity and two more that had joined it throughout the month. And at the end of everything, on a wall returning home, we see written in graffiti: “There were not three demons, there were three projects.”
_AM: It had been your initiation.
_I: Yes. At that moment I understood that I had gone through a series of tests that had made it clear to me that something new was beginning, and that every time we had a mission to complete, an initiation would come first. Many years later, each path he took began with an Initiation.
_AM: An Initiation is to start something. Anything. Introduction to piano, is that you start piano lessons; initiation to English, is that you begin to study another language, initiation to mathematics, initiation to computing, spiritual initiation, photography initiation, painting initiation... Every new thing you undertake in your life is an Initiation. The concept has been used in ancient times as a concept related to ceremonial, religious, and cultural matters. An initiation ceremony is performed, like those strange theatrical pantomimes where the initiate must go through certain tests, and if they are passed, he will be accepted into the fraternity. Baptism and Communion are Christian initiations, the Bar Mitzvah is a Jewish initiation, to cite some well-known examples. Although the initiations of the university fraternities in the United States have also been very famous, or those that the Lords went through in old Europe, and which are reminiscent of the Initiations received by the occult and hermetic fraternities that distanced themselves from the gaze of the Church. Inquisitor, as in Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and other considered sects. During the Renaissance periods, artists designed Initiatory paths where they left hidden secrets throughout towns and cities, which only those hard-working apprentices could interpret. If they discovered the end of the road by following the clues, they would go through the final tests to see if they were worthy of being part of the group.
_I: Yes, it's very sectarian.
_AM: But they had their logic. Ancient arts study groups were prohibited, and they had to ensure that only true lovers of knowledge could reach the main center, so as not to endanger others. These traditions came from the Hebrew Kabbalistic vision, which outlined stages of personal growth. But it came from the ancient Initiatory paths of the Middle East and the Nile.
_I: The Path of Khem, of the Nile, Atlantean Initiatory path that led me to carry out the stages again, this time in the Egyptian temples, both alone and with other people.
_AM: But these paths are the cultural and religious formation of something much earlier. The paths of the nomads, who set out to find a prosperous place, with the aim of developing. In several ancient, native cultures, today considered a minority, the aborigines, for example, traced initiation paths through deserts or jungles, mountains or seas, where apprentices had to undergo tests that prepared them to be an active part of a community, discovering the strength of your body, your soul and your spirit. This is how the initiatory paths arise in the first place. Following the migrations of animals, the changes in climate, the cycles of the moon, the flow of rivers, the mountain ranges, everything traced winding paths that showed life itself moving through reality. Physically, humans followed these steps, which became the nourishment of their souls, which led them to discover the inner capabilities in each step, and in doing so, showed them the power of their spirits.
_I: The roads, then, began to be represented by the Serpents... By their shapes, the undulating paths...
_AM: And so it was that the serpent became the mother of all the wise men in humanity. The serpent that guards knowledge, the truth that is found in every corner of the path.
_I: That is why the initiation paths began to be laid out in a serpentine manner on the banks of rivers, or on paths through mountains with alignments of rocks.
_AM: And at each stop, they had to face a test. A mission.
_I: I remember the one we performed as Atlanteans, on the Nile. It was divided into 33 tests: 11 for the body, 11 for the soul and 11 for the spirit, one for each human vertebra. Sometimes, people took 33 years to perform these tests, spending a year in each temple on the banks of the Nile. Although for others it was only 9 years, 3 for the body, 3 for the soul and 3 for the spirit. That directed us towards birth, passing through the 4 pillars of the universe: expression, experimentation, integration and transcendence, to then manifest ourselves in birth, grow, reproduce and die. The road began at Lake Victoria, Uganda, called Nân-Ah (the great window). It's funny to me now that I think that yesterday we talked about Victoria, and the initiatory path began there...
_AM: Everything has a meaning.
_I: It continued along the White Nile, although some began the path on the Blue Nile, from what is now Lake Tana in Ethiopia. In today's Khartoum, there was one of the temples that linked the foot of the world to the central channel of the Great Nile. The physical tests led us to navigate, cross deserts, mountains, survive wild animals, overcome the need for survival and the fear of death. The next stage led us to face emotions, in the territory between Sudan and southern Egypt, which exposed us to those attachments and ties, and led us to the breakdown of our inner being, to be reborn as someone new, from point 0. To continue with the last part towards the north of Egypt, where we integrated the spirit, where our mind, ideas, ability to control our thoughts, to direct our intention were tested. Once the 33 steps had been completed, the last section was along the Jordan Valley, ending on the island of Cyprus. And once everything was done, you received the staff of the snake, which turned you into a priest or priestess, a teacher or teacher.
_AM: And this path just started again.
_I: Oh, yes... For the Atlanteans, the Initiatory Path did not have an end, but was constant, and we must always maintain the task of walking the world or ourselves. We had to review what we had learned, put it into practice again and again, and although the evidence was no longer as compelling as at the beginning, each new year was known to the priesthood as a new initiation. Every day we begin our activities, every month we begin a new period, each year we begin a new cycle, and everything that made us up has been transformed, so it is necessary to prepare the new cells again.
_AM: That is why we will travel this initiatory path.
_I: Now? In 9 days?
_AM: Yes, that's right. So here I leave the task to do for this week. You will have to walk, but you will choose the path. Look for a map of the area in which they are located, it could be an area 100 meters around, or 100km around. You will identify 9 sites, and each one will be assigned a chakra. If you cannot move or go out very far, then invent this path, using representative objects from every day in a patio or house, taking advantage of the rooms. Every day, I will tell you what to do in relation to the corresponding center. Simply give each site an attribute. Shall we start?
_I: The Ankle chakra…
_AM: Related to a Path or Path. It can be a hallway, a transit area. Where we express our will to move forward in life, leave or enter.
_I: The Knee chakra…
_AM: Related to a Historical site. At least, a site that represents the memories of the ancestors, or of what has been traveled, the oldest site or where the memories are found.
_I: The Root chakra…
_AM: Related to a Tree. A place with roots, with branches, that connect deep into the earth.
_I: The Sacral chakra…
_AM: Related to a well or source of water. It could be a water well, a swimming pool, a fountain in a square, a lake, river, or the bathroom itself.
_I: The Plexus chakra…
_AM: Related to a meeting point. Plaza, Shopping Center, Park, dining room, a space for people to interact.
_I: The Heart chakra…
_AM: Related to a service site. From a restaurant, to a bank, hospital, kitchen. Care centers, spaces that recall the idea of being available or sharing with others, giving of yourself to others.
_I: The Laryngeal chakra…
_AM: Related to a learning site. Whether it's a school, library, or desk, bookshelf or just putting some books on the floor.
_I: The Third Eye chakra…
_AM: A place of contemplation, a high place from where you can see everything else, a quiet place. A roof, hill, table... The important thing is that you place yourself in a space where you can see a different perspective.
_I: The Crown chakra…
_AM: A spiritual, meditation, religious, faith center. Or in any case, the spiritual space of your home, an altar, a sacred site, whether in the house or in nature.
_I: From what I see, we will work the crown with the Toroid, since today you are proposing the task.
_AM: That's right. The Alignments path will begin in reverse today, as this will be a different start. From the feet to the crown, we will travel the Nile, and we will activate our Initiatory Path. This will be a small test that helps us understand that every day we start something new, that each week can become an Initiatory path. And so, we will be ready for the big test.
_I: Which one?
_AM: The Path of the Dragon… Travel the Serpent of the World, starting this August 2021 until December 2021.
_I: Is there homework already...?
_AM: That's right... As long as you travel the Great Serpent of the World from Turkey to Patagonia, passing through India, Siberia, Alaska, the Rockies, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Argentina, everyone will take the same route. So... Are you ready to start the Serpent path?
_I: Yes… I am ready to take the external path towards the internal.
_AM: Welcome to the Initiatory Path of Aries. Shall we begin?
_I: Pisces had a Dream, and he set out to make it come true. But first, he asked himself, “What does this dream mean, Why did you dream it, Why do you want to live it, What is your purpose, Who will live it, How do you intend to manifest it, How much of yourself should you have to make it possible, When is the best time to achieve it, where can you capture it, and question if that dream is really yours? Once you get the answers, you will set the intention to let go of what you believed and what you were clinging to, to vigorously solve all the problems and obstacles that arise, fighting furiously to be independent of your past, and move towards the future. . What is the goal?
_AM: Victory.
_I: Clearly, this had to be today's concept. Nothing more emotionally Aries than winning, than experiencing Victory. Why is this sign related to competition, sports, excess energy?
_AM: Aries is the initiator, and therefore, he does nothing but try to complete things in order to start new ones. He gets bored easily, because everything that is already in the process of development is exasperating, he needs the culmination of things to obtain the power to light the spark. It is the eternal and infinite beginning. Therefore, the entire existence, for Aries, is presented as a marathon, a race in which goals must be met. The path is not as important as recognizing that you have reached the end and started a new stage again.
_I: But isn't that counterproductive to the teachings we have received, such as: “the important thing is the path, not the destination”?
_AM: When you become aware of the eternity of the universe, you value the path above all things, and philosophically you understand that the important thing is to experience because there is no end to things by themselves. However, when consciousness becomes habit, one gets lost on the paths of experimentation, clinging to the path, forgetting where they were going, and the importance of getting where they were going. What allows networks to exist, and existence itself, is the ability of data to move and interact through nodes. Without that end, you would not be able to feel anything, perceive or understand things. Understand that the path is eternal, and is made up of a constant of endings and beginnings.
_I: Oh! I already understood, it is as if I were drawing an extensive dotted line. From the constant vision of time and space, it is a consecutive, eternal line, a path, but each point that composes it is a beginning and an end in itself...
_AM: ………………………………………………………………………………. This is existence. What your brain interprets as a line is nothing more than an eternal sequence of points, and what your brain understands as points is nothing more than a line sequence. Alpha and Omega, for all eternity. This implies that the only thing that allows the existence of the consequence is the eternal permanence of the beginnings and endings.
_I: Birth and Dying, Beginning and End... Everything is ordered so that it begins and ends, like days and nights, weeks, months, years. Time is a constant divided into millions of finite fragments...
_AM: Same as the consciousness of the Universe. Every thinking mind in the cosmos is a fraction of the universal mind. They are all a constant idea, mentalism, consciousness of the divine universe, and in turn it is divided into individuals. Like water, it is one, fragmented into millions of atoms or drops.
_I: Wow… It's true.
_AM: For this reason, Aries reminds us that all things have a beginning and an end, a goal, an objective, and that they are all the path. There is no end to the path, because the path is a constant of endings.
_I: So what role does competition play?
_AM: “Com” (with) and “petere” (ask, acclaim), is to acclaim something together. Particles compete for space and energy, atoms compete for energy, molecules compete for energy, and so on, nature groups individuals, fractions of being, in order to claim something, to receive energy. If you don't take action, you won't get what you need. Nature is capable of generating everything for everyone, but to get it, they must earn it.
_I: This is a very capitalist or liberal vision…
_AM: Do you think that nature is Communist?
_I: Explain to me.
_AM: Organisms group together in communities, sharing energy with each other, this is the basis of natural communism. But the reason this communism works is because each individual contributes something to the group, and does their part to generate energy exchange. That is capitalism, and it is called distribution of capital, of what is earned. There is no organism in nature that nourishes other organisms with energy without asking for anything in return. In that case, it is called a tumor, or parasite. For something to work, it takes teamwork, and no matter how minimal it may be, everyone contributes something to the whole. It's called competition. It is the exchange between the parts, which by nature, occur freely between the fractions. There is no central system that forces others to give to others, there is no government that distributes capital, but rather a government that sends signals to where there is more so that those who have less share. It's called libertarian equity. Independence is achieved when you are able to generate your own resources, or add your resources to those of the group, or community. But when someone does not make his energy available, there is no victory, but rather a parasitic disease.
_I: Ugh… This is morally very susceptible today. Because it is considered that we must help those who have less with the resources of those who have more.
_AM: And so it should be. This is how nature works...
_I: But… Then I didn't understand… Because your description was totally backwards.
_AM: Oh no, what's backwards is your preconception. The error is in believing that someone external, paternalistic or matriarchal, has to decide on the parties considering some weak and others strong. Weak organisms tend to group together to generate greater interaction, and thus find a way to compete. But no one in nature simply gives to those who do not have. Everyone delivers or performs something. Humans are the only ones who have broken this rule, and that is why there is hunger in the world, rich and poor, and the poor are usually out of the competition, since states have dedicated themselves to dominating them in order to maintain power.
_I: I understand... It is not a matter of not having, but of nurturing the idea that they do not have, which takes away their power.
_AM: Stigmatizing profit. Winning comes from the Indo-European etymology “gheë”, which means “to be open”, to open oneself to something (also related to yawning). The Gothic used this term to describe “gänan”, related to the desire for something, like someone who opens their mouth wide to eat everything. Related to competition, the concept of winning is what tells us about taking that energy that is needed (like in English “win”, coming from “wen”, which is desire for something). Power is the fundamental energy, since power comes from power, arising from the idea of being a master, owner of one's own destiny, independent of others. From the mental human concept, one competes to obtain recognition, from the emotional one one competes to be accepted, and from the physical one one competes to win. All three give power to the being, but this system comes, as I have mentioned, from the incessant search for energy in exchange with other organisms. And that energy, vital force, in the Indo-European language is called “weik”, that is: Victory.
_I: So Victory is the concept that lets us know that we have managed to obtain the energy we needed to move forward, developing.
_AM: The constant task of living organisms is the administration of this energy or force, and to do so they must learn to exchange naturally from a liberal independence, at the same time that they need a community exchange to obtain what is necessary. This is teamwork. The only possible victory is when the effort of each individual sustains and develops the group. Like a hive, an anthill, a herd, a forest, a school, a family, or a community village. Victory is the exchange of energy.
_I: And how is it related to the competition of an end, a goal?
_AM: In Greek, “meta” means beyond, giving the sense of moving into the distance. However, the idea of a finish line comes more from the cones located on the stages of a Roman horse circus, marking the limits of the race, since the word derives from the construction. In English, “goal” refers to the obstacles on a path. Running and crossing obstacles to advance further and build a new stage is the sporting or symbolic summary of our lives: being born, growing, reproducing and dying. Each of these stages, fragmented by days, months, years, hours, periods... Life itself is the energy, vitality, strength that we gain in each new cycle, and therefore, represents Victory in itself. From the aforementioned point of view of a dotted line, a being obtains victory every time he restarts a new cycle and continues to develop, evolving in his existence.
_I: So Victory is eternal...
_AM: But you must know how to use that energy. Well, if you wear it out or steal it, there is no victory, but dependence, lack of power.
_I: I re-signify the idea of competition, then, from being something that puts me in the fight with others, to being something that helps me improve my interaction and exchange with others, freely if I do it consciously.
_AM: Well, if you do it from unconsciousness, you will become a cancer, a tumor of the organism to which you belong, stealing energy from the system, and one day you will die because no one will be able to give you anything anymore.
_I: I renounce the idea of believing that I do all this to reach an end, a goal, since my entire path is a constant goal.
_AM: Every day you wake up is winning a new fight on all levels. Every day you advance more, every day you learn something new, you are victorious. Energetic.
_I: This is how I redefine Victory not as that which puts me above others as a winner, but as that recognition that I was able to generate for myself the energy that I need to exist.
_AM: You are eternally victorious. Every day you wake up you are victorious. When you have eaten, you are victorious, when you laugh with someone you are victorious, when you love you are victorious, when you rest you are victorious, when you share you are victorious, when you learn or teach you are victorious, when you manage to create something you are victorious, when you live you are victorious.
_I: Emotion is energy, and energy administered independently in our being, becomes Victory, translated into life. Therefore, I understand, if I know how to manage the emotional energies of this Arian impetus, I will be able to become the winner of my own being, generator of my own victory.
_AM: Recognize yourself Victorious, bring awareness to each of the sparks that ignite your being, and crown yourself with this mantle of energy that rewards, rewards your existence.
_I: I Am Victorious!
_AM: I Am the Eternal Wisdom.