As we know, the transpersonal chakras are the ones that transcend the realms of the incarnated personality.  Nevertheless, these chakras hold the powerful keys for the spiritual development and understanding of the dynamics of Creation. Although part of the teachings of various esoteric traditions, Master Dwjal Khul was the first to reveal publicly to the world, through the works of Alice Bailey, the existence of the transpersonal chakras, namely the location and function of the Soul Star.

The chakras are formed with a mixed of ethereal, astral and mental substances. It is through them that we can connect  with the more denser terrestrial energies of the planet and, at the same time, with the more subtle  vibrations of the cosmic space. The secondary and tertiary chakras, when appropriately balanced, ignite an alchemical phenomenon known as the Unification of the Chakras. As the Earth Star chakra connects us to Earth with her energy and information, the Soul Star connects us the higher vibrations of the cosmos.  It is very important to develop the both the Soul Star and the Earth Star simultaneously.

The Hara Line is the major pipeline, in which energy passes through the central part of the human body, where the primary personal chakra system is located. Located in the central part of the physical body to the navel, the Hara is our true self, the essence of our Divinity. The Hara Line is the conduit that allows the Light energy to pass down to the Soul Star through the Crown, spiraling low straight line down through Hu-Yin point located in the perineum, root or base chakra; the process continues  following downward towards the Earth Star, expressing and manifesting the energy of God on Earth through this connection.  The transpersonal Chakras join the Soul Star with the Earthstar and Star Core of the Earth.

Just as the Sushumna, or Central Channel, connects the seven primary chakras in the physical body, the Hara Line connects the Transpersonal Chakras to the Sub-personal Chakras through the subtle bodies and connected to the physical body at the Tan Tien. A visualization for this is a three dimensional overlay surrounding the Central Channel.

The Earth Star Chakra is located approximately15 cm below the feet, by which we receive the terrestrial/telluric energy, rising through the chakras of the feet. This chakra is responsible to root the personal and transpersonal parts of one’s soul to the Earth’s molten core of iron through the Earth’s electro-magnetic field.  The Earth Star builds the necessary energic bridge which connects the incarnational purpose of a soul with the roots of the planet; essential to anchor a plane of existence. The Earth Star Chakra is also known as the Auric Field Chakra.

All the energy centers that compound the being are the synthesis image of more advanced stages in which life manifested itself. When dislocating thorough the lower planes, there can be an insurgency of forces, or rays, that are transmitted from the monad through the Higher Self and posteriorly, to the physical body, the chakras and the other subtle bodies.

The story of our lives is recorded inside of the matrix of our Earth Star.  Following the same path as Kundalini, with birth and childhood being the lower spine and our future at the top, as the energy irradiates to the neck, the Earth Star Chakra becomes responsible for personal development and the paths we take forward in life. Some yoga tantric specialists describe a total of five sub-personal chakras being located below the Muladhara, or Root, Chakra, and the Earth Star Chakra.

These five sub-personal chakras are numbered from the nearest one to the body, a few inches below the feet, to the fifth one, two arms lengths below the feet.

1. Incarnation Point Chakra (a few inches below the feet) – practical implementation of the soul journey for the current life
2. Incarnation Chakra (about 40 cm below the feet) – connection to ancestry, tribe, clan
3. Sub-personal Leadership Chakra (below the feet at an arm’s length) – Anima, in contact with the female archetype
4. Earth Centering Chakra (below the feet at an arm’s length) – links to the archaic earth energy
5. Earth Star Chakra (below the feet at two arms’ lengths) – exchange and relationship to the Earth goddess.

The Earth Star Chakra embraces all of our ancestral and racial history, all of our current incarnation’s family mysteries and cycles as well as all generational issues. It is also the record keeper of all past life incarnations and holographic karmic lessons learned. At the end of earthly existence we disconnect from the Earth Star and climb through this tube of Light, passing through all the chakras, when we arrived at Crown and visualize the Light from the Soul Star, the tunnel named by people with close experiences to death. In the process of this ascension, we perceive our whole existence, ordered from the beginning to the end.

This sub-personal chakra makes the true connection between the tridimensional plane of existence of this planet and the holographic grid of previous incarnations. This center differs completely from the Karmic matrix of the four dimensions, because the Earth Star connection is a non-karmic one.

Please also read The Chakra and the Nadis Systems and Understanding the Sub-personal Chakras: the Earth Star

As we all know, the movement from the chakras are rhythmic, constant and harmonious.  They circulate the energy through the four bodies in order to promote the perfect integration between our physical body and our Higher Self. When imagining the rotation of the chakras, imagine them rotating in the clockwise movement.  Emphasis should be placed on the proper direction because there is that some literature affirms the opposite. When the chakras are perfectly aligned, cleared and strong; one can observe an interesting phenomenon: the root chakra and the crown chakra will undergo a polar inversion, which gives the origin to an opening or a Light gateway to new dimensions of consciousness.

The chakras should be experienced as live consciousnesses. They are not three-dimensional in nature, but they can be perceived tri-dimensionally, as some people have the ability to visualize them with the gift of sight. Normally the chakras are divided in two groups and differ in nature according to their location and they function.  They are either “physical”, or personal, chakras, which include the seven most often discussed, or they are transpersonal, or spiritual, chakras which reach the areas beyond the realms of Self.

Among the transpersonal chakras, which are the ones of a more refined spiritual characteristic, we find the ones that are located “below” the self: the sub-personal chakras.

The Earth Star

The Earth Star chakra is the first sub-personal chakra.  It is a chakra, believed by some members of New Age and Neo-Pagan, to exist in line with one’s spine, six inches below the feet. Other traditions place the Earth Star chakra as being “two arms lengths” below the feet.  Either way, it is located in a fixed position relative to the physical body and not necessarily specifically located beneath the ground.

It is believed that one of the primary functions of the Earth Star is to coordinate the “grounding cord” for one’s Lightbody that leads to the center of the earth; and when functioning properly in coordination with the first, or root, chakra (the Muladhara Chakra) allows one to be grounded and centered in daily living.

What we call Lightbody is the fusion of the four bodies that compound the human body: the etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Once this fusion is achieved, health, balance, harmony and stability of perfect physical, emotional and mental are finally established.

This same merge represents the unification of the objectives of the Soul and personality, the final identification between the Karma and Dharma when all becomes One. In accordance with the ancient system from Assyria, one would need to activate a fully integrated Lightbody to make the final journey through the enlightened path of the stars. One activated, the Lightbody would enable a soul to be free from all the mutational aspects of duality, igniting what we called the personal Merkabah.

One of the delicate steps of this process is the effective connection with the Lightbody of the planet, through the connection with its heart and the Christic Grid. The prospect to make this connection is only possible to the clearing, activation and integration of one’s energy system with the Earth Star Chakra.

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Although our three-dimensional condition of life is linked to seven major chakras, there are actually thousands of chakras inside of our energetic system. Each of them has a valuable function and serves several different purposes.

As a rule of thumb, the chakras are the translators of our preterit memories.  They act as inter-dimensional portals that allow us to have access to the necessary energy to live our life experiences in plenitude.  They function as organs and through their surfaces they metabolize vital energy coming from our subtle bodies. Inside of each of the chakras, the energy is harmonized and distributed to the rest of the physical body through the various endocrine glands. The free flow of energy through the chakras ensures a smooth flow of vital energy to the rest of our system, providing health and vitality to the physical body.

The chakras are able to alter our moods and behaviors by hormonal influences since they are closely linked to our cellular structure and our endocrine system. The capture of the energies from the chakras is made through the network of fine channels of subtle energy field, called Nadis by the yogis.  It forms what we know as the etheric double that gives the entire system the appearance of a colored grid.

According to the yogic teachings, there are 72,000 Nadis, or channels, in the ethereal subtle anatomy of humans. The Nadis are the drivers of the lifeblood of vibrational therapy. Among the 14 major Nadis, three are of fundamental import: Sushumna, Ida and Pingala.  All the Nadis are subordinate to the central channel, Sushumna, which runs from the base chakra to the crown chakra. This central channel seems to cut across the spine which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid. In Eastern teaching, the Nadis of the physical body or coarse Nadis are the veins, arteries and nerves.

While we cannot completely assimilate all three dimensional experience in one existence, we go through the process to take upon successive embodiments, transforming the energy constantly through the game of materializing and dematerializing.

Physical life and death differ only in the exterior presentation form of energy. It is said that the spirit leaves the field leaving the body to die, but that is to say, that the energy of matter is transformed into energy of mind again; returning to accomplish the task of raising consciousness after it has assimilated the experience of physical life.

While a soul does not exhaust all the programmed learning system into which it is inserted, it will return again by his own will, or the power of attraction to the physical plane. That is, the spirit –consciousness “substance” becomes dense once again.

The universal energy is densified through the chakras system: when it descends into our physical bodies, using the Nadis as the living energy grid to spread itself broadly, moving through the points referred in acupuncture as the meridians.  In this way, all imbalances in the physical body can be somatized and detected through the chakras system before they even begin to exist, or manifest physically, by therapists who work with subtle energy.

The Last Supper is the final meal that, according to Christian belief, Jesus shared with His Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. Its symbols and the archetypical drama that it precedes, emulates the journey of the Sun through the celestial arch, guiding the light throughout the earth, and ending its journey through the passage into the underworld, and to be again resurrected and victorious  in a next cycle.

What we commonly call a Solar Sign is actually the position of the sun in one of the constellations of the sky at the time a person was born.  With this record, we can easily determine the category and vibrational quality of the energies present at the birth which would delineate a soul theme to be developed and utilized by the soul in their lifetime. This information, nonetheless, is not complete.  Determining and associating the interaction between the Sun and the other planets, the astrological houses, the moon and, sometimes, for a deeper interpretation, the use of the Fixed Stars; are needed for a greater understanding. The basic standard that pins everything together is the Principle of Synchronicity.

If we believe that all the planets and stars are bonded by measurable and perfect orbits, with mathematical precision, and that they belong to and are one of the more refined expressions of the Music of the Spheres, part of an intelligent and conscious orchestration of frequencies; we can determine, by affinity, their influence in areas on the globe in accordance to their position in the heavens.

Accepting that Reincarnation is part of the great Law of Evolution and Balance, we can see this invisible harmonic structure. By affinity, groups of people will be attracted to elaborate together their essences, in accord with these energies. Esoterically, the types of beings that are responsible to engineer these serendipitous events are called Karmic Engineers. Their meticulousness is impeccable, because there is nothing created by the Divine Mind that is out of balance and precision. The way we try to understand the movement and the logic of these great Consciousnesses is through a deeper understanding of logic behind the mechanism of Astrology.

The last meal that Jesus shared with his disciples is described in all four Canonical Gospels, namely in Matthew 26:17-30, Mark 14:12-26, Luke 22:7-39 and John 13:1-17:26. This meal later became known as The Last Supper. The Gospel of John does not include the episode of the breaking of the bread among the disciples, but tells of Jesus washing the feet of the Apostles, and has a detailed farewell discourse by Jesus, calling the Twelve Apostles who followed his teachings “friends and not servants”, as he prepared them for his departure.

Jesus’ actions in sharing the bread and wine have been linked with Isaiah 53:12, which refers to a blood sacrifice that, as recounted in Exodus 24:8, Moses offered in order to seal a covenant with God.  Scholars often interpret the description of Jesus’ action as asking his disciples to consider themselves part of a sacrifice, whereas Jesus is the one due to physically undergo it.

Although the Gospel of John does not include a description of the bread and wine ritual during the Last Supper, most scholars agree that John 6:58-59 (the Bread of Life Discourse) has a Eucharistic nature and resonates with the “words of institution” used in the Synoptic Gospels and the Pauline writings on the Last Supper.

The first records that refer to the existence of horoscopes appeared in the 7th century BCE, when several of the ancient civilizations were candidly devoted to observing the movement of the stars in heaven. These ancient people believed that the stars could influence human life: especially the fate of the newborn. The most common version of the horoscope we know today, however, is a mixture of influences from the ancient astrology of the Babylonians, the Egyptians and the mathematical knowledge of Greek philosophy, and emerged around the 5th century BCE, with the creation of the Zodiac.

In its Greek origin, the word Zodiac means “circle of animals” and indicated the great celestial belt that marked the path of the Sun at that time. Within this trajectory, each constellation symbolized a passing sign. The number of constellations, the figures formed by the connections of the stars, varied in shape and significance in accordance with each civilization, their myths and imagery.

The primary twelve groupings of stars that represent the signs of today were standardized in antiquity, from the influence of images of the mythology of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. By setting a fixed reference for observing the stars, the zodiac horoscopes drove the emergence of individual birth chart: an analysis of the sky at birth which supposedly brings revelations about the person and his destiny.

Even in the early Christian era, ancient civilizations defined the profile of each sign, taking into account, for example, the peculiarities of the seasons. Other influences, such as simple observation of the temperament of people born in the same period, also changed the characteristics that each sign has today.

With the change of the solar path over the centuries, the direct correspondence between astrology and astronomy is no longer as accurate as it was in the past. The Sun now passes through constellations that are not part of the zodiac, as well as in periods different from those observed in ancient times. But at least in some respects, the horoscope has adapted to changes over time. “This is the case of some relatively recent innovation in the historical range, as the discovery of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, which brought new elements to the astrological sky,” says historian David Pingree of Brown University in the United States.

The Eclectic Mythology

The Sun-Signs nowadays are the result of mixed legends from the Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures.

ARIES

In Greek mythology, Phrixus, son of King Athamas, would have been murdered by his stepmother when he was rescued by a flying ram with a Golden Fleece, sent by his birth mother. From the Roman tradition, the ram was sacrificed and the fleece was buried in the orchard of Aries, god of war, which gave name to the sign. In Greek tradition, the Golden Fleece was not buried but figured in the legend of Jason and the Argonauts

TAURUS

4000 years ago, Taurus was the first sign of the zodiac. It coincided with the spring and marked the beginning of the year. The image of the bull comes from a Greek myth in which Zeus, the chief of the gods, had taken the form of a bull to kidnap and woo the princess Europa. We see the presence of the symbolic Taurus in the Bull in the Old Testament, which outraged Moses. Also we see the Bull in India as Nandi, the company of Lord Shiva.

GEMINI

The brothers Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus, fell in love with two girls who were engaged and challenged their rivals. Castor was killed in the ensuing battle, and Pollux, in mourning, asked Zeus to kill him too. In memory of the friendship of the children, Zeus placed the image of twins in the sky, in the constellation of Gemini.

CANCER

In Latin, Cancer means crab, an animal that appears in one of the twelve archetypical Labors of Hercules. Sent forth by Hera, the official wife of Zeus, the crab was killed by the hero, but the courage of the animal earned him an image in the heavens for all eternity.

LEO

The Lion was a symbolical representation of power and royalty in the ancient world. In this sign, we meet again another mythological creature killed by Hercules on his journeys. The hero not only strangled the Nemean Lion with his own hands, he made a cloak of the skin. The conquering of the internal beast of power, or the Ego, is the first task addressed to the demigod Hercules. In honor of the feat, Zeus placed the image of the lion in the night sky.

VIRGO

The Virgin, the purity of Nature’s conceptions, represents the fertility, creativity and the power of creation in itself. For the Romans, the Goddess of Justice represented the constellation Virgo. She was sickened because of the habits of men of war, and was the last to ascend to heaven to reside in the abode of the gods. Minerva, goddess of wisdom, put a picture in the sky in her honor. Another ancient myth talks about the deity Demeter. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries.

 LIBRA

The element of measuring of ones actions, thoughts, intentions and accomplishments was a constant concern in ancient times, as noted in societies such as the Egyptians who dedicated their time to program their spiritual development in the afterlife. We see the scale appearing where the Goddess Maat measures the heart of the dead against her feather.  Identified by the Romans, Libra symbolizes the scale used by the Virgin to weigh the souls of men to send them to either the underworld or the sky, eternal pleasure or pain.

SCORPIO

This constellation appears in the episode of the death of the giant Orion. In one of the multiple myths, it is said that Apollo, the Greek god, was jealous of the friendship of Orion with his sister Artemis and sent a giant scorpion to bite and kill the giant. Zeus put both the scorpion and Orion in the sky as a reminder of their story.

SAGITTARIUS

In Greek mythology, Chiron was the wisest of the centaurs, a creature half man, and half horse. He was mortally wounded when accidentally struck by an arrow of Hercules, but as a demigod was not able to escape the pain by finding relief in death. He offered himself as a replacement for Prometheus, and it was granted by the powerful god Zeus.  Later Zeus honored him with a place in the heavens.

CAPRICORN

In Greek legend, the goat that symbolizes this sign has a fish’s tail. It is a representation of Pan, god of nature who, to escape the Titan Typhon, threw himself into the water. Pan died because, as he turned into fish, half his body was still out of the water. The Goat is also a symbol of Almathea, the foster Mother of Zeus. Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat that suckled the infant god in a cave in Crete’s Mount Aigaion, “Goat Mountain”.  Sometimes she appears in other minor mythologies as a goat-tending nymph.

AQUARIUS

Water is one of the signs of the Babylonians, along with Capricorn and Pisces. In the Middle East, Aquarius would be the corresponding month of the rainy season, which led to the symbol of the sign: a man turning a jar of water. Esoterically, the Aquarius sign represents the waters of the deluge and the mystical transition of Humanity to a new phase in life. In Greece, it is a representation of the young Ganymede.  In the best-known myth, Ganymede is abducted by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as cup-bearer on Olympus. Some interpretations of the myth treat it as an allegory for the human soul aspiring to immortality.

PISCES

In the Greek legend, Aphrodite, goddess of love, and her son Eros turned into fish to escape the Titan Typhon, who could not stand the water. Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, created the constellation to commemorate the escape. The twin fishes are also a representation of the power of the Goddess Thetis, also a regent of the watery underworld.  Thetis is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water.  She is one of the fifty Nereids, the daughters of the Ancient One of the Seas with shape-shifting abilities, who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus, whose name suggests the “first”, the “primordial” or the “firstborn”.

When described as a Nereid in classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris[1].

The Star of the Birth of Christ

According to Christian tradition, The Star of Bethlehem was the star that guided the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Matthew mentions that the Magi in the west saw the Star of Bethlehem, but was not clear if it was a planet, a star or other astronomical phenomenon of astrology. According to the writings, the wise men following the star traveled, and it stopped over the place where Jesus was born. Although it is impossible for a star to mark a place as specific as a manger and there have been various suggested explanations for this fact, it is likely that the passage is only a metaphor for the alleged facts. Whatever it was, the Wise Men were associated with King of the Jews. If they were Greek or Roman astrologers, they would have associated the star of Bethlehem with Jupiter, the planet king, and Regulus, the star king. If they came from Babylon, they could have associated the planet Saturn (Kaiwanu). In any case, it could also be the star Sirius, which suggests the “three kings” of the belt of the constellation Orion.

Throughout history, many people have tried to find out about what is the real meaning for star of the Magi: was the star a natural event that really happened, or was it  merely an assigned myth of a spiritual nature, or even a real sign of  supernatural nature of vital importance to determine the birth of Jesus Christ.

The presence of a star at the birth of Jesus is no doubt a messianic symbol. The Biblical reference is the prophecy of the star of Balaam, which was to be received through line of Jacob. Although the star has often been identified with the King David, even before the birth of Christ, the Jews were still waiting for the Messiah.

“I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob;
A scepter will rise out of Israel.”
~ Numbers 24:17

In the second century, Origen Adamantius and Irenaeus of Lyons recalled this prophecy precisely in relation to the Star of Bethlehem. Irenaeus particularly appealed in his books, to the prophecies to demonstrate the truthfulness of Christianity. The messianic identification is even more clear in the versions of the Bible (the translations normally used by Evangelists), where the “scepter”, which is located in Israel, is translated into Greek as “man”.

As it occurred in the prophecy of Balaam, the theme of “light” appears in many other prophecies throughout the Bible which traditionally are applied to the Messiah.

“Arise; shine, for your light has come,
 and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
 See, darkness covers the earth
 and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the LORD rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
~ Isaiah 60:1

The “nationalism” that pervades the prophecy of Balaam may be the reason why the Star does not appear in the Gospel of Luke, directed to “gentle” Hellenized Jews.

Through the ages, astronomers have tracked the scriptural references to try to find a rational explanation for these episodes of the New Testament, trying to find our clues for the exact date of birth of Jesus Christ; and to determine if it was really possible to track what could have been an astronomical phenomena that may have coincided in time with the scriptures.

The monk Dionysius Exiguus[1], an astronomer and abbot of a Roman Scythian monastery responsible for establishing the birth of Jesus, made ??two significant errors in calculating the calendar in the sixth century Christian. To determine the year of the birth of Christ took into account the reigns of Roman emperors, but forgot that Caesar Augustus had ordered four years under the name of Octavio and the year zero omitted.

That margin of error places the birth of Jesus five years earlier than generally assumed. Besides these facts, there are two other references furnished by the Gospels which are useful to find the approximate date of the event revered by Christians.

1. The census that forced Joseph and Mary to request lodging in Bethlehem could be what Caesar Augustus ordered between 8 and 6 BC. Additionally, according to scripture, King Herod, who ordered the death of male children hoping to eliminate the “King of the Jews” died in 4 BC.
2. The Nativity probably did not happen in December. Luke the Evangelist says that the shepherds watched their flocks in the mountains, but in Bethlehem, in December, it was the time during which sheep would have been driven to town and during which, the sheep would have been grazing indoors and out. This data suggests that the birth of Jesus took place between March and April of year 6. BC.

In the Gospel of Luke, it says that the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, when he ministered in the temple. Given this, we obtain the data, as was the order of Abijah, ministering the incense the penultimate week of May and John was born before Jesus, at least six months ahead. So, according to this, Jesus must have been born for the Feast of Tabernacles, in the month of September.

On the other hand, if we take into account that in the Gospel of Luke and that the sixth month of the Jewish calendar for the month of Etul, ‘August- September’ to the Gregorian calendar, we can locate the moment of conception of Mary, hence the birth of Jesus nine months after “June” in the Gregorian calendar, also coincides with the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere, 21 June being the longest day of the year.  This foundation is totally believable as based on a biblical and astronomical perspective.

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
~ Luke 1, 26-27

The Gospel of Luke mentions that the announcement was the sixth month of the Jewish calendar, ie in September, which is governed under the sign of Virgo (the Virgin) and a nine-month gestation would result in the virgin shine under the sign of Gemini, in June. Because of the above, one can conclude that Jesus was born in June, probably on the 17th (numerological 8 as the day of his resurrection and symbol of baptism) and analog in terms of interpretation allow us to affirm the dual nature of Christ, God and human, as Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini, in terms of Greek mythology.

The Mysteries and the Miracles

Another interesting and important ritual performed by Jesus is described in the canonical gospels indirectly, as it was referred to as a miracle: the resurrection of Lazarus.  In this passage, the behavior of Jesus is unusual and very peculiar, especially when it refers to the illness and death of a very close friend. Even stating that Bethany was only two miles away from the place where Lazarus was, and despite the fond request of his sisters, the Master waited more than three days to go and see the “one that he loved”.

“So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
~John11:3-4

“After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”  Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.”
~ John 11:11-13

“On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask. ”
~ John 11:1-43

For those familiar with the esoteric rites from many schools of wisdom, the apparent miracle is the exterior and allegoric face to an elevated and specialized ritual in which it was required of the initiate to enter in a state of trance for three days. This is not a novelty for the Israel of that time: the origins of this ancient ritual seem to be Egyptian.

The entire ritualistic procedure was supposed to last for three days and at the end, the seeker should be awakened from the trance by the words of powers of a real master. Jesus Himself refers to the same process when he declares according to the Gospel of John (2:19) ”Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. “No wonder the disciple named as Thomas was so curious of the impact of this ritual initiation afterwards, when Jesus awaken from his “death”.

The clearest evidences of Jesus’ mysteries and miracles are referenced in the Gnostic Gospels. But this should not infer that the early fathers of the church were ignorant of the mysteries and their rituals, neither that they had not received these initiations themselves.

There are numerous references concealed in the epistles of the Apostle Paul, when he used the technical language proper of the schools of mystery:

“By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care”
~ 1 Corinthians 3:10

“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.”
~ 1 Corinthians 2:6-7

Some disciples of the Gnostic Valentinus in the second half of the second century declared they received the teachings of the Mystery of the Christ through the Apostle Paul, which were given secretly to a handful of disciples.

Among the many topics of the Divine and mysterious wisdom of God which Paul speaks about, we find the topic of reincarnation. This was a concept accepted by the majority of the people of the ancient world at the time of Jesus, especially by the Essenes and other Gnostics.

In Kabbalah, the esoteric teaching of the Jewish people, there is a concept that supposes the transformation and movement of the soul from one vehicle to another. The Pharisees accepted this concept in an interesting way, where only the just soul had the permission to return to earth to perfect itself, while the “not so good” would not have the same opportunity. Reincarnation was as an accepted concept until a council from the early church declared it a heresy.

The Hymn of Jesus and the Esoteric Tradition

Jesus Christ, as a hierophant of ancient mysteries, constituted some secret rituals, the strict focus of which was in the training and expansion of consciousness of his disciples.  These went beyond the ritual of Baptism and Eucharist:

“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body. Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
~ Matthew 26:26-28

 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you; I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”
~ Mark 14:22-25

 “When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.  After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
~ Luke 22:14-20

The registering of these rituals is very much veiled in the Bible.  An example of which is the rite of the hymn sang by Jesus Christ and his disciples after the Last Supper.  It was recorded in a brief and enigmatic manner and itemized in the same fashion in Mark (14:26) and Matthew

“When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”
~ Matthew 26:30

Nevertheless, this ritual was preserved through an apocryphal document known as the Acts of John and it was later published as the Hymn of Jesus Christ. In the ceremonial of the hymn, the disciples are said to be in a circle, holding hands. Jesus gave the tone and frequency of the hymn in the center of the circle.  The disciples would respond Amen and move themselves in circles. Does the description of this ritual seem familiar to what the whirling dervishes do in their Rituals of Ecstasy?

The power of the hymn could be expressed by some of its sayings:

“Glory to you, Father!

Glory to you, The Word!

Glory to you, Grace!

Glory to you, Spirit!

Glory to you, Sacred!”

The rite continued with an encompassing rhythm, which progressively induced the participants to a higher level of consciousness.  In the same canticle, we find declarations of an esoteric nature, such as:

“Now respond to my dancing!

See yourself in me when I speak!

And seeing what I do, keep silence about the Mysteries!”

It ends with an interesting phrase that announces something that was also espoused by the modern psychology Carl Jung: “If you have known how to suffer, you would have the power to avoid suffering. Know the suffering, and you will conquer the power to do not suffer”

Miracles as a Multidimensional Experience

Miracle is a word derived from the Latin word miraculum, from the verb mirare, which means “to wonder”.  It is known to be the name for some extraordinary occurrence or circumstance which, in the light of our five senses and knowledge, has no scientific explanation.  Sometimes, their happenings seem to suggest a violation of the natural laws, which reign upon the ordinary phenomena of our daily lives.

For the majority of the theists, their manifestation is usually attributed to the Divine Omnipotence, being considered as a direct act of Divine Intervention in the natural course of events.  Generally the miracles, according to the theists, are occurrences designed to benefit and reward an individual with moral and ethical merits, his faith, endurance and fortitude.  For regular people, most of the time these incidences are rare and they are mostly submitted to the regular laws of manifestation.   At the present time, some scientist-theologians propose that miracles are not violations of the laws of nature per se, but only a fresh “exploration of a new regime of physical experience”.

The miracle is born of an event that is difficult to explain with scientific knowledge in a given time.  Thus to different early cults, the eclipses were miracles, or contact with new populations of different tribes, or the sudden healing of individuals allegedly ill.

The concept of miracles is the subject of controversy for this reason with two different, groups espousing different definitions: the religious and esoteric, on one hand, and the rationalists, on the other.

In esotericism, miracles fall into two categories:

1. The miracle is done through the power of religion, by a priest or one with sacerdotal abilities (Theurgy)

2. The marvel is done through the power of magic, by a magician (Thaumaturgy).

The rationalists simply lump miracles into causality or coincidence.

Nowadays, in the context of the Catholic religion, the existence of miracles are essential elements in the processes of the bestowing of beatification and sanctification; that is, the ways by which a person already dead are elected to swell the list of “venerable” who deserve worship as transmitters of Catholicism.

In rabbinic Judaism, many rabbis mentioned in the Talmud held that the laws of nature were inviolable. While the idea of miracles that contravened the laws of nature was hard to accept; they still affirmed the truth of the accounts in the Tanakh. Some therefore explained that miracles were in fact natural events that had been set up by God at the beginning of time.

Miracle in the Qur’an can be defined as a supernatural intervention in the life of human beings. According to this definition, Miracles are present in a threefold sense: in sacred history, in connection with Muhammad himself and in relation to revelation.

According to Christianity, a miracle is a supernatural event itself which is manifested in the love of God toward humans.  Augustine of Hippo[1] offered the following definition of a miracle: “I call it Miracle, being hard and unusual, seems to exceed the expectations potential and capacity of the beholder “. But the author does not put much emphasis on miracles as “challenges to the natural laws.”  He branded that all the facts, ordinary or extraordinary, have a religious significance and viewed them from the standpoint of faith: “both the growth of the harvest as the multiplication of the loaves have the seal of love and power of God “.

Paul of Tarsus presented the charisma of healing work and the power of working miracles as coming from the spirit of God and for the common good:

Concerning spiritual gifts, would not, brethren that ye are in ignorance. (…) To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing in one Spirit, to another the power of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another, diversity of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one individually as he wills.

~ I Corinthians 12, 1.7-11

Thaumaturgy is an ancient concept which defines the capacity of a saint or a master to realize and manifest miracles. Thaumaturgy in theology is defined as the doctrine of miracles which inspired the particular branch of religion that deals with wonders and miracles.

Thaumaturgy has some of its origins in the early practices of Hermetic alchemy and Theurgy. As an art, thaumaturgy is the ability to change the properties of ideas, ideals and situations. In the Hermetic Kabbalah, the mystical tradition, a person titled a “Magician” has the power to make subtle changes in higher realms, which in turn produce physical results. In real terms, a thaumaturge is someone that has the power of intercession and manifestation not only for the self but also for the benefit of others.

Thaumaturgy has its genesis on the Greek word for miracle; wonder. It is directly translated to English as wonderworking.

Wonderworker is a branch of magic, a magical art devoted to produce miracles. Sometimes sources of literature tend to reduce the concept of miracles to only those with the power to promote the resurrection of the dead. This is seen and regarded to be an action of the power of laying on of hands or magic touch: “the power of hands”.  There are specific myths attributed to the Egyptian doctors, priests, Asclepius[1] and later by Jesus Christ, and, in special circumstances, by some of the Christian Apostles.

In original Greek writings, the term thaumaturge is used to describe several Christian saints.  In Sunni, Shia and Sufi Islam, Tay al-Ard (literally “folding up of the earth”) is a term used to describe a saint miraculously teleporting, or “moving by the earth being displaced under one’s feet”. In translations, these miracles have been described as thaumaturgical.

Some prefer to distinguish Theurgy from Thaumaturgy, since the latter is in charge of miracles in strict sense of religious miracles. The difference, nonetheless, is very subtle, and not an end in itself.

During the time of the Roman Empire, there was a belief in the existence of Divine Men, with extraordinary powers, who could express the full potential of Divine gifts, such as prophesy, the working of miracles and the curing of illnesses. These men were known as thaumaturges. The most famous of these rare beings was Apollonius of Tiana, who was a contemporary of the apostle Paul of Tarsus.

According to tradition, it was said that he had capabilities very similar to the gods. As a prophet he healed the sick, operated miracles, raised the dead and then he ascended to heaven.