The aim of the Archeosopher is to live on earth in full possession of wisdom, moral virtues, good health; gifted with psycho-spiritual powers, in continuous contact with God, the Angelic Hierarchies, the Masters of the supersensible worlds, and then, having finished the part of the work to help Humanity, to transfer himself into the beatitude of the Kingdom of God. 

However, to obtain all this, discipline and moral Ascesis, control of respiration and of the physical body, are not enough; the help of an earthly Master, with the horizontal Initiation – which should open the consciousness of the Disciple to the divine influence – is not enough: the male and female Archeosopher must devote themselves to that which is mental, to their mental body , so that it becomes a perfect instrument of the Ego , they must take care of their emotional and etheric body, in order to deliver them pure and docile to the Ego.

 

This itinerary calls for perfect attention and mental concentration in a single point - God and his attributes. Whilst our mental lake is agitated, rippled with the winds of desires, God cannot be reflected in it. At this moment, that which is mental is not calm, it is disturbed by the respiration process which agitates the blood and the emotivity. It is for this that the Archeosopher concentrates, above all, on his mental body, regulating respiration, before beginning meditation on God, and on that which is of interest to the life of the spirit.

 

When a clairvoyant observes a man, he sees him as a human outline made up of colored lights, which are the different vibrations of the aura , revealing the seven deadly sins: pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, sloth - from which come other participating vices. Well, if these colors do not vanish to be replaced by the opposing virtues then the eye of the soul cannot see God, because the smokescreen of base instincts prevents it.

 

The mental body reflects the activity of the astral and the etheric bodies, servants of the emotive and erosdynamic soul.

 

To give the beautiful calm and transparency to the mental lake, to confer the beautiful, pale-blue, gilded colors of spirituality, of love and wisdom, we must analyze and put to good use the properties of the consciousness, and especially: the will, attention, the ability to fix the attention, mental concentration, memory, imagination, meditation - which is nothing but the prolonged concentration on a symbol , a virtue or another object, favored, if necessary, by abstraction.

 

Tommaso Palamidessi

excerpt from "THE CONTROL LEVERS OF INITIATION ARE THE MASTERY OF THE MIND"

in the 9^th Booklet