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- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:24:49 -0800
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    Dear 'FraterQV',

    >> Bardon never really gave a good definition of what "akasha" is.
    There are several different meanings depending on which mystical/magical
    school you are talking about. If anyone can quote Bardon's
    comments/definition on "akasha," I would really love to hear it. <<

    Okay. :) Bardon actually wrote quite a bit about the Akasha and thanks
    to the digital versions of his works that are available (except for
    "Questions and Answers"), here are all of his most relevant comments
    describing the Akasha:

    >From "Initiation Into Hermetics" --

    1) Several times while describing the elements I have said that they
    proceed from the ethereal principle. Accordingly, the ethereal principle
    is the ultimate, the supreme, the most powerful thing, something
    inconceivable, the ultimate cause of all things existing and created. To
    put it in a nutshell, it is the causal sphere. Therefore akasa is
    spaceless and timeless. It is the non-created, the incomprehensible, the
    indefinable. The various religions have given it the name of God. It is
    the fifth power, the original power. Everything has been created by it
    and is kept in balance by it. It is the origin and the purity of all
    thoughts and intentions, it is the causal world wherein the whole
    creation in subsisting on, beginning from the highest spheres down to
    the lowest ones. It is the quintessence of the alchemists; it is all in
    all.

    2) Now the question will arise were and how akasa or the etheric
    principle occurs in the grossly material body. In doing some deeper
    thinking, everybody will be able to answer this question by himself, for
    the etheric principle is hidden in its most grossly material form in the
    blood and in the seed and in the reciprocal action of these two
    substances in the vital matter or in the vitality.

    3) The material world has emerged from the principle of akasa, i.e.,
    the known ether. The world also is controlled and kept by this same
    principle.

    4) Through subtler vibrations of the elements, through the electric and
    the magnetic fluid of their polarity, the man proper, the soul has
    proceeded from the akasa principle or the finer etheric vibrations.

    5) The centre of the ether or principle of akasa is found in the region
    of the neck and is named Visudha.

    6) Beginning at the top, from the supreme centre, along the neck, down
    to the lowest centre, like a channel runs the socalled Susumna or the
    akasa-principle already known to us, liable for the connection and
    control of the entire centres.

    7) The astral plane, often designated as the fourth dimension, has not
    been created out of the four elements, but it is a density-degree of the
    akasa principle, consequently of all that up to now, in the material
    world occurred, is actually occurring and will occur, and has its
    origin, regulation and existence. As said before, akasa in its most
    subtle form is the ether, well known to all of us, in which, amongst
    other vibrations, electric as well as magnetic ones are propagating.
    Consequently this vibration-sphere is the origin of light, sound, colour
    , rhythm, and life in all things created. As akasa is the origin of all
    existing things, all that ever was produced, is being produced and will
    be produced in the future is reflected in it. Therefore, in the astral
    plane there is to be seen an emanation of the eternal, having neither a
    beginning nor an end, as it is timeless and spaceless.

    8) From the supreme prototype (akasa), the original source of all
    beings, has proceeded the spirit, the spiritual EGO with the four
    specific elemental qualities, proper to the immortal spirit, which was
    created in God's image.

    9) All the other qualities of the spirit are based upon these four
    original principles. The typical part of the fifth, say the etheric
    principle (akasa) manifests itself, in the highest aspect, in the faith
    and, in the lowest form, in the instinct of self-preservation.

    10) Both these spheres, the material as well as the astral one have
    been born from the akasa or original principle of the respective sphere,
    through the four elements, and also the mental sphere is built upon the
    same foundation, and therefore likewise a product of the akasa principle
    of the spirit. Similar to the spirit, developing in a fourpole magnet by
    corresponding work and showing an electromagnetic fluid analogous to
    the astral body, on account of the effect of the elements, as a
    secondary phenomenon of the polarity on the outside, the mental body
    develops in the mental or spiritual sphere. Just in the same way as the
    astral body, through the electromagnetic fluid of the astral world,
    forms an astral matrix, the so-called astral od, the electromagnetic
    fluid of the mental world forms a mental matrix linking the mental body
    to the astral body. This mental matrix or the mental od, the so-called
    mental substance, is the subtlest form of akasa which controls and
    preserves the spiritual activity in the astral body.

    11) Simultaneously, the mental sphere is the sphere of thoughts which
    have their origin in the world of ideas, consequently in the spiritual
    akasa. Each thought is preceded by a basic idea which, according to its
    property, accepts a definite form, and arrives to the consciousness of
    the ego through the etheric principle, consequently the mental matrix,
    as expression of the thought in the shape of a plastic picture.
    Therefore Man himself is not the founder of the thoughts, but the origin
    of each thought is to be sought in the supreme akasa sphere or the
    mental plane.

    12) Working in the akasa principle is timeless and spaceless; in the
    mental sphere, you operate with time; in the astral sphere, you work
    with space (shape, colour); in the material world, you work with time
    and space simultaneously.

    13) Consciousness knows neither time nor space; it is consequently an
    akasa-principle.

    14) This mental balance is the specific fundamental property of the
    akasa or causal principle of the mind.

    15) Working through this step the scholar should be able to transfer
    himself at any hour and in every situation into this depthpoint, into
    the akasa principle, from there perceiving and influencing all that
    concerns his being. This consciousness transference into the akasa
    principle is the genuine magical state of trance and represents the
    preliminary stage of the connection with the cosmic consciousness.

    16) We have heard that akasa is the primary source, the sphere of all
    causes. Any deliberate cause, such as a wish, a thought, any imagination
    created in this sphere together with the dynamic conviction is bound to
    be realized with the help of the elements, regardless of the level or
    sphere on which the realization necessarily has to be performed. This is
    one of the greatest magic mysteries and a universal key for the
    magician, who will understand its range only later on in the course of
    his development. The scholar should always keep his mind on his own
    ethical development, which will certainly help him to do only good and
    noble deeds. Our next exercise will be to win absolute control of the
    elements with the help of the akasa principle in all the three realms.

    17) The akasa principle, in its simplest form expresses itself as
    conscience.

    18)
    Element: Fire Air Water Earth Akasa
    Sense: Eyes Ears Perception Taste/Smell All in all
    Quality: Will Intellect Feeling Consciousness Conscience
    Exercise: Optic Acoustic Emotional Expand consc. Realization

    19) Now load your right hand with akasa, which you imagine to be of a
    black- violet colour.

    20) A magician has got to be kind, obliging and willing to help at any
    time, to assist by word and deed, to act generously, considerately and
    discretely. He must be free from ambition, superciliousness and avoid
    any boasting. All such passions would be reflected in the akasa and, the
    akasa principle being analogous to harmony, akasa itself would certainly
    put the greatest obstacles in the magician's way to stop his further
    development, if not make it quite impossible. Any further rising in a
    case like that would be quite out of question. Just remember Bulwer's
    novel Zanoni, in which the guardian of the threshold, nothing else but
    akasa, sees that the highest mysteries do not come overnight to unworthy
    people. Akasa will derange a person mentally, arouse doubts of all
    kinds, or hold him prisoner by vicissitudes and reverses of fortune in
    order to protect the mysteries in every possible way. These mysteries
    will always remain hidden from incompetent persons, though hundreds of
    books should be published about them.

    21) Since the akasa principle ignores time and space, acting
    permanently in the present time, for the concept of time depends on our
    senses, the magician is advised to adapt himself as much as possible to
    akasa. He must acknowledge the great moment of NOW as representative,
    thinking and acting according to it.

    >From "Key to the True Quabbalah" --

    22) The sun in the center of the picture represents Divine Providence,
    the Akasa Principle, the origin of all that exists.

    23) The "Ch" has a violet color oscillation and thus appertains to the
    akasa principle

    24) The "E", in a dark violet color, akasa violet, light oscillation.
    The "E" has the specific characteristic of the akasa principle which is
    revealed, in its elemental effect, in a feeling of power of penetrating
    all.

    25) This number is graphically symbolized by a triangle. The three is
    the number of akasa principle, of fate, of karma, and, planetarily seen,
    the three is attributed to the sphere of Saturn. Everything that was,
    that is and that will be, the mental as well as the astral and the
    material, originates from the akasa principle, wherein the three is also
    to be found. Number three is the original idea of procreation, which
    manifests itself in the plus and the minus, i.e., in man and woman who,
    in unification, beget the third, i.e., the child. In man himself, the
    three is represented by spirit, soul and body. The three is also the
    number of intuition. All religious systems, in their fateful
    manifestation, have derived from this number. Three is the number of
    life and death. It is the number of cognition in its highest form.

    >From "Practice of Magical Evocation --

    26) The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious
    equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.

    27) The magician also has another opportunity: he can symbolize the
    elements in the circle, in which particular case he only has to place
    four lamps inside the magic circle. The magician who stands in the
    center of the magic circle is the representative of the Akasha Principle
    and as such he represents the fifth element.

    >From "Questions & Answers" --

    28-54) The last 10 pages (from page 88 onward) are devoted to comments
    pertaining to the Akasha.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    11 Feb 2005
    rawnclark@...
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