Now, let us look at some aspects of the occult anatomy of man, especially to use them ascetically. We know for sure that our organism lives by absorbing the so-called bio-energy from the environment and the cosmos; spread in the air, food, water, the elements and coming from the sun. Bio-energy circulates in numerous ducts or pipes of etheric matter resembling an arterial network. The color of this energy is pink.

 

Amongst these ducts, three are of the utmost importance: the Medullar, which interpenetrates the cerebrospinal axis from the perineum to the juncture of the lamboid and sagittal suture of the cranium, the lunar Serpentine of the left side, of a pale color, negative polarity; the solar Serpentine of the right side, red color, positive polarity.

 

Along the energetic pipe of the Medulla there are connected some sort of funnels, or rotating turbines, which absorb and expel bio-energy. These are the” psychic Centers” in connection with a nervous plexus, a hormonal gland and to certain psychic and parapsychic faculties. The Centers, and the arteries of subtle matter where the bio-energy circulates, find a comparison in the Hindu Chakras and Nâdis, in the serpents of the Caduceus of Hermes, in the Hermetic-alchemistic “Crowns”, in the Sefirots of the Kabbalah.

 

The lunar Serpentine starts from the basal Center where the Igneous Power lies, triangular in form with the vertex above in man and below in woman, and arrives at the left nostril after having snaked across the Medullar tube four times, and the last time under the frontal Center at the root of the nose.

 

The solar Serpentine, begins like the “lunar Serpentine”, always from the basal or sacral Center, but from the right, running a course, like a serpent, now to the left, now to the right, towards the head, intersecting the central cerebro-spinal duct to arrive at the right nostril.

 

The medullar (cerebro-spinal) or the central channel is at the center of the spinal column in both sexes, but the polarity of the Serpentines is inverted in the woman; the lunar Serpentine goes from the right and arrives at the right nostril; the solar Serpentine starts from the left and arrives at the left nostril. In these Serpentines run the colored atoms of bio-energy (prâna, as known by practitioners of Yoga).

 

Bio-energy is therefore positive and negative, and is very important in normal bio-energetic respiration, in that ascetic and in fetal respiration. During Archeosophical exercises these bio-energetic currents must be modified, suspended, strengthened, slowed down - to reach the results to be gained. Life and death, ascent and descent, are connected to bio-energy.

 

For example, when we have to awaken the ”Igneous Power” to make it climb inside and always higher in the cerebro-spinal canal, we must block the comings and goings of the normal bio-energetic currents of the two serpentines.

 

The passage of the “Fire of Creation”, that is, of Igneous Power , the immanent Eve, kindles in us, beginning with the basal Center of the spinal column, the other six Centers of force which were drowsy, almost nonexistent or only slightly revealed by cosmoionic instruments and by clairvoyant investigation. Each Center stimulated by the “Igneous Power” is like a spiritual antenna, which sees and receives everything that is part of the plane to which it corresponds. In short, for every Center there is a heaven, a cosmic plane.

 

The phenomenon of the Marriage of Eve going towards Adam, from the inferior to the superior pole of consciousness, must take place in the Coronal Center, but it must immediately move to the Center of the Heart. Here, the neo-androgen will meet God. This experience can last from a few minutes to some hours.

 

Tommaso Palamidessi

excerpt from "THE ANDROGYNOUS STATE METAPHYSIOLOGY, POLES OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND IGNEOUS POWER"

in the 8th Booklet of Archeosophy