TEMPLE OF THE SEVEN SPHERES

THE PERSONAL UNIVERSES: THE INNER & THE OUTER DREAMING

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THE DARDA: The written works of the Datu
THE WRIT OF ONE:
ANU & THE ALL.
KEYWORDS:
(1) EQUALIBRIUM
(2) MOTION
THE PERSONAL UNIVERSES: THE INNER & THE OUTER DREAMING
THE WRIT OF TWO:
AZAG & BABILANI: THE TWIN POLARITIES: KEYWORDS 1. CHANGE 2. GROWTH
THE WRIT OF THREE: THREE SELVES, ONE BEING
Opening the lines of communication:
Three orders of beings:Mortal, Elemental, Eternal.
THE WRIT OF FOUR: CONCERNING THE 4 CURRENTS
Tablet part four: The sixteen elemental counterchanges.
THE WRIT OF FIVE: Magic, The Path of Enki
THE WRIT OF SIX: the need to step beyond the path of Enki
THE WRIT OF SEVEN: The Creation Myth part 1.
Creation Myth part 2
Creation Myth part 3
The Creation Myth part 4
Understanding the myth
THE WRIT OF EIGHT: The eight rays
The tales of the emissary.
THE WRIT OF NINE: The Theurgy Path of Enlil
THE WRIT OF TEN: Seeking perfection, The path of the King
THE WRIT OF ELEVEN: The Path of the Priest/ess
THE WRIT OF TWELVE: ASTROLOGY and SHUB-NI-GARASH( Divination by the Tablet)
ASTROLOGY: A PHYSICAL LUNAR APPROACH
THE WRIT OF FOURTEEN: The Wisdom of the Aphkallu
WRIT OF SIXTEEN: Seeking wholeness, The Path of Anu

the seal of abba anu, (the outer dreaming, the edge of tension and the inner dreaming,

The Two Polarities Of Existence:

PERSONAL UNIVERSES:

When the initiate perceives a material universe, the initiate's perceptions of this universe are a bundle of input received by the sensory organs, and is interpreted in terms of time, space, mass and energy.

What we are perceiving is a great sea of energy. This energy vibrates like a giant resonant drop of water; it is like a vast ocean conducting the vibrations of all that exists within it.  The conductivity of this 'sea' remains the same, although the 'Many Things' that exist within this sea can be infinitely altered, broken down and recreated from there component parts.

The universe is composed of Mass, Time, Energy, and Space.
Matter and non-matter are composed of energy vibrating at many different levels. The lower the level of vibration, the more gross and less subtle the energy is.

Thus a solid vibrates at a lower level than a liquid; and has a weight, a taste, a smell, and a visual and tangable (touchable) basis.

Liquid is less gross than solids, and more gross than flame. Liquids have all of the aspects listed above for a solid, yet are less tangible. Glass is an excellent example of a liquid that is between stone and water in it's level of vibration. To convert a liquid to a solid we must cool it, and in effect we must slow its vibration.

Fire is even less tangible than water. Fire is a metabolizer, in that it brings changes to the vibratory levels of the things that it encounters. If a solid is exposed to extreme heat, the heat excites its substance. This causes an increase in the oscillation of the molecules of the solid, and they loose their cohesiveness and become liquid. Conversely, if heat (fire) is then removed, the oscillation of the molecules slow and the liquid becomes a solid (i.e. ice).

Gasses are even less tageble than flame. It is often invisible, tasteless, and odorless.

To move into finer levels of vibration we must move to sound, radiation, ect.
By example of the principle of "the lower the vibration the more gross a substance", we can inversely be assured that the higher the vibratory level of the energy basis, the more subtle the energy becomes. Thus, we could view thought as a far more subtle energy than the physical body composed of physical matter. We could also find thoughts to be of a higher vibration than emotion due to the heavy connection between the emotions and the lower animal self (body and subconcious).

Examples of the comparative vibratory levels of manifestation from most gross to most subtle:

1) Solids
2) Liquids
3) Plasmas (fire)
4) Wind
5) Light
6) Life force (Zi, 'vitality / life force' the life force used by the body and subconscious)
7) Emotion (ecto-plasm)
8) Thought
9) Life force II (nizi 'vitality of wonder ' that is used by the conscious self. Ni (awe or dread) is the effect of supernatural upon the living.
10) Life force III (Zimelam "vitality of the divine light' is used by the high soul, the godling self that is a 'guardian angel')
11) Melam (called by others; divine light, aethers, azoth, essence, it is the universal substance)

THE INNER-DREAMING AND THE OUTER-DREAMING:


The world outside of us is the existence in which we live, or the collective reality. All that we think, feel and beleive manifests in this outer dreaming as reflections of the inner dreaming. The inner dreaming is attached to our center, our awareness. The inner dreaming, the world within us, is vastly greater, and more accessable than the world outside us. In the Inner dreaming we can travel to places, real or theoretical, in any point in time or space, in an instant of contemplation.  We can opperate completely free of any other influence; and are thus able to create actions in the outer dreaming that are novel and revolutionary.  In the inner dreaming we can hold our secrets fast; think, feel, or believe anything we choose. We can root ourself in a child-like wonder that sees each moment as a moment of discovery.

The outer dreaming, being a reflection of the inner dreaming, is utterly unique to each individual. Every aspect of the outer dreaming that a person exsperiences is untouchable to any other entity. Another entity can empathize with your universe, they can learn large amounts of relevant data about your universe, they can even stand in an identical point of perspective; but they cannot take your place at your center. Like wise the inner dreaming is utterly unique and individual.

The circumferenece or outer dreaming is limiting and defining; it uses the power of paradox to limit our actions and wishes. Paradox is the hard edged limiting parameters of the awarenesse and experiances of others (the rules created by the collective unconscious). Paradox dictates that you can't vanish in a puff of smoke nor walk on water under normal understandable circumstances. It tells us that magic is false, that wishes don't come true, that the gods are dead or never were. The outer dreaming tells us that we cannot fly beyond our limits. It pushes us with the notions that we are bound by gravity and fate, and unable to become free of those influences. In short the outer-dreaming instigates a set of 'blinders' that narrow our perspective. It implements rules of existence that seem unbreakable. The outer-dreaming instigates taboos over activities that stretch the boundries of the safety net that the psyche uses to feel safe and sound. The outer-dreaming is a place of stimulus that begs a patterned responce based on limits set by our experiences in the outer dreaming.
The inner dreaming is the birth place of the patterned responses, and it tends to forget that the patterns that it produces are boundless and infinitly mutable. Humans have a tendency to find a working pattern in responce to a repeated stimulus. Once the pattern is found we become reliant on that pattern and obeidient to the stimulus. Instead of presenting a familiar, time worn response, we could choose to look at the motion that is in front of us and choose a pattern that freely exspesses one's individuality and common sence. This forgotten freedom of expression buys into the aparent limitations of the outer dreaming. The acceptence of the limits and inevitabilities of the outer dreaming, allow us to convince ourselves that we are unable to change the outer dreaming.

The Datu know that the outer-dreaming is far more mutable than is evident. While paradox tends to limit the generation of certain patterns (invisibility, levitation, godzilla, ect.), the manifestations that commonly apear in the outer dreaming are highly sensitive to oblique manipulation; and a solid understanding of the inner dreaming educates the Datu in the methods of oblique manipulation that circumvent paradox.

Knowledge of the outer dreaming is EXOTERIC or outer knowledge; while  knowledge of the inner dreaming is ESOTERIC. The entire purpose of esoteric systems of knowledge is the cultivation of new and unique perspectives that assist in the freedom from or manipulation of exoteric factors.

The commonly accepted definition of magick used by many current occultists is, ' To make changes in one's eviroment in accordence with the will'. By this definition, every action of free will is an act of magick (note the 'k', it is used by many modern authors to differentiate the esoteric from the methods of slight of hand).

Exoteric philosophies are approaches that attempt to use overt manipulation and altered states of existence to create exoteric Magick (enviromental changes explainable by common means or understanding). Esoteric philosphies are generaly complex approaches that seek to use altered states of awareness (ritual, breath excercises, ethnogens, divination, ect. ) to create esoteric Magick (changes unexplainable outside of ritual language or mystical perspectives that appear to have oblique effects on the inner or outer dreaming).

The Datu's system is a balanced mix of esoteric and exoteric understanding of both the inner and outer dreaming. It promotes self reliant, mature oneness of motion. It promotes the adult perspective tempered by child-like wonder. And it encourages the unification and empowerment of all three selves.
Each of the figures of the tablet of fate, have a trial or initiation associated with it. The purpose of these trials is the aquisition of the Me, the divine gifts of common sence that function both esoterically and exoterically.
 
Within the structure of cerimonial magick, we perform certain ritual acts the 'commemorate' the first fourteen trials:

0. The Temple is cleaned, all is dark and silent.
 

1. The Priest/ess baths and is anointed with oil. All trappings are cleaned. The priest/ess enters The Temple with a small mundane light. The altar is set, the food offerings and the wet offerings are placed, and all is silent and still.
 
 
00.  Blessing of the altar and trappings. Blessing of the food offerings. Casting of Zissuru (flour circle) if for magic.
 
 
01. Asperging of the space; the libation (wet offering).
 
 
02. The lighting of the lamp; the burnt offering (incence).

 
03. Suffumigation and ringing of bells: "goleth grund sak".

 
000. Offerings from those who remember and the opening of the watch towers.
 
001. Statement of authority and the hearing of grievances.

 
002. Statement of intent and the unification of desire.

 
003. The words of Ea-Enki; the invocation of the gods; the petitions/vows; the mundane weddings (ninki).

 
004. Acts of magic, divination, thaumateurgy, and invocation of elemental geniuses/ intermediary gods (ninghizhida).

 
005. Sacred weddings, cosmic dramas, initiatory experiences, and audiences.
 
 
006. Theurgy, reconciliation of opposites, trial by fear, and the initiatory journey.
 
007. Illumination, return of/to the light, feasting, and the banishing of the circle.

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