 (This sermon was given by a gnostic priest at a public wedding ceremony.) SermonI wish to begin today by reminding us all that marriage is sacred. While symbolized through rituals which we can find in every culture, and codified by various laws of the time and place, the reality of marriage goes well beyond these things. Its true source is something far beyond this terrestrial landscape. Let us remember that nothing comes from nothing, and therefore, everything comes from God. Marriage is a union of two souls. Therefore, marriage transpires fundamentally, foundationally, between the souls of two people. Our soul, of course, is connected with divinity. Yet, it yearns for something more, a deeper connection. The mystical traditions of every religion support this notion. We are but a spark of light looking to return to the great bonfire. The soul discovers its way home through the expression of love and the development of wisdom. Love and Wisdom! These are the two pillars of marriage, and these are both gifts of God. It is up to us, our will, if we wish to fulfill what is offered before us. When two souls agree to congregate, they can build a church founded on these pillars. To love is best! Love is divine. It does not matter how cliché it may sound: there is nothing better we can do with our life than to know how to love. Yet, without wisdom, we do not know what love truly is. Without wisdom, we remain confused. Being confused, we do things in the name of love, but which are wrong. We confuse love with selfishness, and so, the comedies and tragedies of life are always ongoing. We make mistakes. We have problems. We suffer. We fight―and our pain continues. In Luke 21, Jesus says, “With patience ye shall possess thy souls.” This word patience is hypomonē in Greek. It means to bring forth fruit through endurance and perseverance. Marriage is just like this. The blossoming of marriage does not appear out of a simple dint of will though. In marriage, the couple must know how to fight! But not against each other. Each must learn to fight against their own selfishness. If we observe nature, we can see that. Nothing in nature ever stays the same. If this place [the wedding venue] was left alone, it would fall to ruins, like many others you can see around this land. If you buy a car or a house, you have to continuously maintain it. Otherwise it will fall apart. If this can be said of the physical things of this world, what more can be said of marriage! We are ever changing, in our hearts, minds, and soul. If we do not take care of our inner workings, things will surely fall apart. If we do not willfully change for the better, we implicitly change for the worse. No one ever stays the same. We are either growing or dying. Sacrifice is a key component of marriage. Without it, there is no growth! But our ego is afraid of this, because it does not know what is beyond its little sphere of memories. It wants to keep itself just the way it is, and try to bend the world to its whims. The outcome of this type of habit is always painful. It is said that love is content. But our ego is irritated. It is said that love is peaceful. But our ego is angry. It is said that love is valiant. But our ego is afraid. When we sacrifice our irritation, we gain our contentment. When we sacrifice our anger, we gain peace. When we sacrifice our fear, we gain valor. In short: when we sacrifice our ego, we gain love. We win our soul, and marriage between two souls is united on this point. It invokes the power of the cosmos, and truly nothing can stand in its way! This is the greatest ideal realized in humanity. Love is not something that you add to your relationship to make it better. Love is already present, and it is your connection to the divine. It is not something you manufacture. It is a free and unlimited resource. Love is infinite abundance. It is our desires, our ego, which impedes and obscures it. When you remove what stands in its way, love is present, ready to give, ready to shine like a light unto the whole world, and those who are able to express it, benefit the world. Most people do not know that the word sacrifice means "to make holy." If the seed does not sacrifice itself, the tree does not grow. The grape must be sacrificed to make the wine. The olive must be sacrificed to make the oil. The more you know how to sacrifice, the more you know how to love. Our normal sense of self, the ego, hates this idea. It has everything backwards. It thinks happiness is achieved by accumulating things, money, by having a set of experiences or sensations, by gaining prestige and respect, and ensuring the world and their partner conforms to their whims. This is all a mistake. The truth is that our happiness and wellbeing always arrive from what is within us. Every mystical tradition affirms that the soul can and should undergo a great transformation in order to know divinity in greater and greater ways. Marriage is a wonderful opportunity for two souls to work in cooperation towards this lofty goal. When anger, frustration, jealousy, or impatience appears, we should not justify their existence in us. Neither should we run away from them, hiding or repressing them. Instead, we should see them, directly as they are, understand them, and eliminate them. From this perspective, we should be thankful when our partner brings out the worst in us. Why? Because when our worst parts are exposed, it makes it easy to know precisely what we need to sacrifice. The journey of marriage contains all things. It will give you great happiness. You will have seasons abundant with joy and laughter. And even when [the groom] makes a horrible joke, you’ll laugh because you love him. You will also have times of difficulty, as everyone does, and it is then that you have the greatest opportunity to change, to reignite the flame of your heart, and gain the wisdom which comes from sacrifice. And with that, greater joy arrives. Love is infinite. Love is limitless. Wisdom is knowing this, and that is why the wise soul gives it away freely. Officiant Addresses the Couple[The couple stands in front of the officiant to be addressed. Audience remains seated.] The Book of Genesis (2:18) says that Adam deserved a mate. In Hebrew, this is Ezer Kenegdo עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ (AY-zer kuh-NEG-doh). Ezer means "helper," a powerful helper. Kenegdo means "to be opposite of," or "face-to-face with." So each of you must face each other with humility. Seek forgiveness for your errors, for your mate will often see your errors vividly, and you will see theirs. You must be each other’s counterpart, a helper for them, a source of strength for them. When you help each other correctly, your love and wisdom will increase. If you cannot do this, there is another interpretation of the letters. Your mate becomes your opposition. You will oppose each other, and your marriage will fail. Therefore: you must become awake, aware, and sensitive to all of that which transpires within you. Sacrifice your selfishness. Love your mate. If you do this, you shall take what is dense and obscure within you, and transform it into that which will uplift you, inspire you, and provide levity and light to your marriage. Hermes Trismegistus says as much: Separate that spirituous earth from the dense or crude by means of a gentle heat, with much attention. In great measure it ascends from the earth up to heaven, and descends again, newborn, on the earth, and the superior and the inferior are increased in power. By this wilt thou partake of the honors of the whole world. And Darkness will fly from thee. This is the strength of all powers. With this thou wilt be able to overcome all things and transmute all what is fine and what is coarse. ―Emerald Tablet by Hermes If you know how to sacrifice in this way, together, you will transform your marriage into a Holy Matrimony.
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This Saturday the 13th is a very special day within the Gnostic tradition. When the 13th of the month falls on a Saturday, special spiritual energies enter into profound activity, as indicated to us through practical astrology and the manifestation of particular planetary influences. Therefore, at the 13th hour (12 to 1 pm) on this date, our planet earth will vibrate with powerful cosmic forces as a result of the Genii Melchizedek, who, according to Samael Aun Weor, is the angelic intelligence that governs our planet earth.
This enigmatic figure or spiritual king taught Abraham the rite of transubstantiation (the Gnostic Unction or Eucharist) after great battles against the Sodomites and Gomorrites. It is stated in the Bible (Genesis 14) that he was the King of שָׁלֵם Salem, which is highly symbolic, since this word shares etymological correspondence to the Hebrew word for "peace": שָׁלוֹם Shalom, and Shelamut שְׁלֵמוּת "perfection." Those who know Kabbalah will not be surprised that these words relate with שְׁלֹמֹה Sholomah or Solomon, who is an archetype of the perfected human being made into the image of God.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was [is] the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram to the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth, And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand." And he gave him tithe from all. —Genesis 14:18-20 
Melchizedek's blessing of Abraham symbolizes how our inner divinity, represented by Abram or Abraham, is given honors from the god of the earth as a result of the initiatic process within each one of us. מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק Melchizedek is literally "King" (מֶ֖לֶךְ Melech) of divine "Justice" (צדק Tzadik) on our planet earth. Therefore, it is important to work with this intelligence in order to become a righteous one (צדיק Tzaddik), known in other words as: an "initiate."
Those who attain genuine initiation through this spiritual and psychological work do so in accordance with the order of Melchizedek. He is the divine planetary intelligence of the earth who grants entryway to the heights of spiritual realization for our humanity. Since he is the life and strength of this planet, we seek to become "Kings" and "Queens" of nature through his beneficence and help, just as all the "righteous ones" (Tzaddikim) צדיקים have done before (including Abraham, Moses, Jonah, Job, Elijah, and all the prophets). Melchizedek's hierarchy is mentioned and alluded to by Master Morya: The story of Moses and his master, Melchizedek, is related in the Koran. It should be read by every searcher of Truth and every occult student, for it teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by energy. ―M., The Lord God of Truth Within
The Qur'an, the esoteric book of the Muslims, depicts Melchizedek as the mysterious companion of Moses. Amongst the Sufis, Melchizedek is known as Khidr, the "servant of Allah," whose transcendental wisdom surpasses that of many great prophets, since those who enter initiation on our earth do so through the commands of this great master.
And [Moses] found a servant [Khidr] from among Our servants to whom we had given mercy from us and had taught him from Us a certain knowledge [marifah in Arabic, gnosis in Greek, da'ath in Hebrew, experiential knowledge from the awakened consciousness].
It is interesting that the Qur'anic story of Melchizedek is in Surah Al-Kahf, "The Cave," since Melchizedek's temple resides, within the superior dimensions of nature, in the caves or heart of the earth.
Melchizedek is also referenced by Jesus within The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia: Jesus, — that is Aberamentho, — said: “Since indeed the father of my father, — that is Yew,— is the foreminder of all the rulers, Gods and powers who have arisen out of the matter of the Light of the Treasury, and Zorokothora Melchisedec is the envoy to all the lights which are purified in the rulers, leading them into the Treasury of the Light, — these two alone are the great Lights, and their ordinance is that they down go to the rulers and purify them, and that Zorokothora Melchisedec carrieth away the purification of the lights which they have purified in the rulers and leadeth them into the Treasury of the Light, — when the cipher and the time of their ordinance cometh, that they go down to the rulers and oppress and constrain them, carrying away the purification from the rulers.” ―The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
Numbers within kabbalah are intuitive principles, archetypes, cosmic laws, and blueprints for the creation and elaboration of the soul. Arcanum 13, the thirteenth law of The Eternal Tarot of Alchemy and Kabbalah, signifies death, purification, and the elimination of defects that obstruct the light of divinity within the consciousness. Through the annihilation of the ego, the soul attains immortality. In this manner, divinity edifies, sanctifies, and realizes the complete human being through the sacred precepts of judgment and compassion.
Rabbi Ḥizkiyah opened, "Like a rose among thorns, so is my beloved among the maidens (Song of Songs 2:2). Who is a rose? Assembly of Israel (תפארת Tiphereth, the human soul, governed astrologically by Venus and the Sun). For there is a rose, and then there is a rose! Just as a rose among thorns is colored red and white, so Assembly of Israel includes judgment and compassion. Just as a rose has thirteen petals, so Assembly of Israel has thirteen qualities of compassion surrounding Her on every side. Similarly, from the moment אלהים (Elohim), God, is mentioned, it generates thirteen words to surround Assembly of Israel and protect Her; then it is mentioned again. Why again? To produce five sturdy leaves surrounding the rose. These five are called Salvation; they are five gates. Concerning this mystery, it is written: I raised the cup of salvation (Psalms 116:13). This is the cup of blessing, which should rest on five fingers—and no more—like the rose, sitting on five sturdy leaves, paradigm of the five fingers (the Gnostic pentagram or upright spiritual master). This rose is the cup of blessing." ―Zohar
Therefore, the planetary intelligence Melchizedek can aid the practitioner on any Saturday the 13th from 12 to 1 pm, the thirteenth hour, to give inner strength and assistance in the elimination of one's internal faults and impurities. Since calculating the appropriate time for these practices can seem confusing, you can reference the following chart:
Through eliminating our psychological defects, we can in turn generate light, thereby entering the superior worlds with serenity, happiness, contentment. This is the meaning of Melchizedek "carrying away the purification of the lights" to compassionately lead the soul "into the Treasury of the Light," the heavenly realms, through benediction and divine justice. A Gnostic Instructor explained, in a lecture entitled A New Heaven and Earth, a special practice for this date: The practice to ask for help from Melchisedec is quite simple. It is performed on any Saturday the thirteenth, at the thirteenth hour (one o’clock). Lie face down (on your stomach or solar plexus). You will pray and meditate for one hour, so adopt a posture that will allow you to be fully relaxed for that time. You can use a pillows or cushion as needed. You can rest your head on your hands or arms. Some students prefer to adopt the shape of a star with arms and legs out. As Samael Aun Weor emphasized, the main feature of our posture is that we should be deeply relaxed, capable of totally forgetting about the physical body. If you are distracted by your posture, you will not be able to concentrate effectively. Learn how to contact the Lord Melchizedek:
To learn more about the preliminaries of how to meditate, so as to prepare for the Melchizedek meditation, please reference the following resources:
May the Lord God of Truth within bring you harmony, peace and understanding!
Nature is cyclical, sustained through distinct, repeating periods of time (days, months, seasons). The rhythms and tempos of our Earth, Moon, Sun, constellations, and worlds, act upon the physical and internal nature of the human being in definitive ways. Such forces have been judiciously studied throughout numerous astrological and astronomical traditions, which all point with exactitude to particular cosmic influences.
Regardless of our knowledge, beliefs, or acceptance of the facts, such conditions profoundly act upon our body, energies, and mind, often moving humanity to act in unconscious, mechanical, or revolutionary ways. Just as there are planetary seasons, there are also celestial periods of time. Humanity, while knowledgeable of and dependent upon the conditions of spring, summer, autumn, and fall, is also dependent, but ignorant of greater cosmic phenomena, which determine not only our physical existence, but the trajectory, level, and quality of our spirituality. 
(The Constellation of Aquarius)
Our solar system travels across the zodiacal belt, receiving the stellar influences of particular constellations. Just as the hand of a clock points with precision to the time of day, likewise our zodiac determines cosmological aeons or periods of time within zodiacal history. Our solar system experiences twelve distinct eras or periods, which respectively take prominence every two thousand years.
Presently, our humanity has moved away from the Era of Pisces and is now governed by the constellatory influence of Aquarius. 
Aquarian Sexuality
On February 4–5, 1962, humanity witnessed a new moon, a full solar eclipse, and the remarkable alignment of the seven primary planets of our solar system with the Earth: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. All seven planets were within three degrees of each other, indicating with prophetic exactitude the initiation of a new cosmic era with all of its cataclysms, revolutions, and transformations: the Age of Aquarius.
Uranus is the chief planet associated with Aquarius and bears a direct relationship to sexual behavior. The Chaldean Ur-Anas signifies "fire" or the Hebrew אור Aur, "light," and anas, "water." These fires of spirituality are born from the Genesiatic waters, a symbol of sexual energy within all ancient cosmogonies and scriptures. Light, understanding, and practical spirituality are born when aspirants learn to work with the source of their creative genius: the transformation of the base sexual matter into a purified, synthetic energy: a sacrament of Uranus, Ouranos, the Greek word for "heaven." This is the metallurgical science of alchemy: the symbolic transformation of inferior metals (dense matter and egotism) into the purified gold of the spirit (conscious development). This is how spiritual aspirants can truly generate a new life, a revolution of conscious expression. Sexual energy is not only the power of physical life, but spirituality as well. There is sexuality amongst molecules that make chemical compounds; between atoms, neutrons, and electrons; between planets and the sun; within the animal kingdom; and lastly, amongst humans and divine beings. Sexuality is also the basis of authentic religion [from the Latin religare, to "reunite"]. It is literally the union, on a psycho-physical, bio-spiritual, and sexual-chemical level, of two bodies and souls: one who loves more, the other who loves better. In the sexual act, man and woman have the capacity to create, and with this power, become a living representation of divinity. Sexual behavior has the greatest impact for psychological well-being. It is also the source of many intense psychological traumas and diseases, which are deviations from divine principles. Satyrion or nymphomaniacal desires, which only see sexuality as the means for carnal pleasure, impel one to act at the expense of one's conscience or ethical nature, originating the degradation of the soul. However, sexual expression can be divine when it is pure. Yet the term "purity" should not be associated with conservative adherence to religious organizations, institutionalization, fanaticism and dogmas, which are remnants of the antiquated Piscean traditions. Such views are divorced from the practical import, revolutionary character, and liberating science of love. Purity, in Aquarian language, refers to the transformations of energy and the qualities of the consciousness, which become free of egotistical conditions like anger, pride, fear, resentment, lust, and jealousy. Purity has nothing to do with belief in a tradition or fulfilling moral obligations, but to the quality of one's mind, which becomes radically illuminated when empowered through sexual force. This creative, Aquarian influence is an energy that pushes entire populations to act. But depending upon the level of spirituality of the individual and the masses, such forces are either channeled through the awakened consciousness, or through the desires of the animal mind. Humanity is ignorant of how to utilize this Aquarian energy in a practical and spiritual way, as demonstrated by the schisms, revolutions and upheavals in modern culture, politics, and sexual relations from the 1960's onward. 
Sexual Revolutions, Inebriation, and Spiritual Ecstasy
Aquarius is a revolutionary sign. It is the cosmic force of inspired rebellion against decrepit institutions, repressive idealism, and profound ignorance that produces suffering. As evidence for this, humanity has witnessed, in the 1960's, a tremendous upheaval in the world of politics, religion, institutions, education, and most of all: sexuality. This is a direct result of the Aquarian influence.
The Hippie Movement of the 1960's, with its identification with Epicurean and nihilistic ideals, led to the disassociation, disenfranchisement, and ethical deterioration of its adherents. This is represented by the Nordic Rune Yr, a symbol of the inverted human being with arms and head to the earth and feet in the air. While commonly interpreted as a symbol for peace, the Rune Yr demonstrates a polarization, inversion, or downward flux of consciousness and energy, a symbol of the involution of spirituality into density, matter, and inferior states of perception. Rather than symbolize "peace" and "prosperity," it actually indicates mental, emotional, and spiritual degeneration. The fallen man, with his head to the ground, demonstrates modern humanity's fascination with money, materialism, and avarice, which is the source of violence, suffering, and war. 
The Rune Man represents the conscious ascent, the redirection and sublimation of creative sexual impulses from one's genitalia to the brain. This is the synthesis of Aquarian wisdom and the significance of medieval alchemy: the transformation of the lead of desire and personality into the gold of spirituality.
The Aquarian Era is constituted by two principle influences: the awakening of revolutionary spiritual longings within the sexual, alchemical sphere, and their antithesis: the exacerbation of desire, egoism, sensuality, and suffering born from indulgence in pleasure. Such a polarity was discussed by Samael Aun Weor in The Three Mountains as the Dionysian Pole: Positive Dionysian Pole: sexual enjoyment by means of sublimation; voluntary transmutation of the entity of semen; awakened consciousness; objective knowledge; superlative intuition; transcendental music of the great classical masters, etc. 
The result of sexual expression is dual: specific behaviors can produce the most genuine fulfillment, or the most profound pain. This duality is referenced in the Greek myth of Bacchus (the Roman Dionysus).
Dionysus is the god of wine (the source of the Christian Eucharist) or mysteries of transubstantiation: the transmutation of the fermented grape into the flesh and blood of divinity. He professed liberation through ecstasy and rituals of love, which bear a dual significance. In the ancient mystery schools, sexuality was symbolized by the transformation of water (sexual matter) into wine (spiritual substance) through a matrimony, allegorized in the parables of Jesus at the wedding of Cana (John 2:1-11) and before the woman at the well (John 4:13-16). This produced the intoxication and liberation of the soul from suffering. Its opposite is represented by bacchanalia: indulgence in inferior pleasures, drugs, psychedelia [psyche: soul, and delia: drugs, delusions or perceptions within the internal hell realms of nature], bestial sexuality and orgies; the drunkenness, stupor, and deterioration of our intelligence through intoxicating substances, animal desire, violence, sadism, etc. Inferior sexuality is degenerated, since it does not result in psycho-genesis: the creation of the soul mentioned by Jesus. Through his instruction to Nicodemus about the second birth, Christ prophesied the promulgation of the alchemical teachings in the future Aquarian age: Except a man be born of water (the sexual energy, Aquas) and of the Spirit (sexual fire, Aries, synthesized as the wisdom of Aquarius), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (Ouranos, Uranus, the heavens). That which is born of the flesh is flesh (through common sexuality); and that which is born of the Spirit (through the transformed sexual act) is spirit. ―John 3:5-6
People ignore their spiritual potential because the majority are addicted to inferior forms of sexuality: the fulfillment of lower desires through orgasm. Rather than constituting a sexual revolution, humanity, under the influence of Aquarian, Dionysian vibrations, is intensifying latent and repressed sexual desires. This is going with the flow of animal nature, which is progressively entering greater states of ignorance and suffering.
Sexual revolution is the doctrine of the Aquarian Era. It is a rebellion against lust, animality, and depravity, since Aquarian, sexual spirituality vivifies the noblest aspirations in humanity while fulfilling the ethical conduct of all spiritual traditions: altruism, perseverance, philanthropy, service, compassion, conscious love, and moral purity. Pisces, which was eclipsed by the Aquarian influence, was noted for its conservatism of the esoteric knowledge and the repression of sexual expression from the public sphere. Such Victorian ideals are opposed by the Aquarian influence, whose chief astrological character is divine spirituality, catalyzed, expressed and taught through harnessing the sexual impulse. As Rumi aptly stated: "If in [spiritual] thirst you drink water from a cup [approach sexuality with spiritual longings], you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces [lustful desires] in it." ―Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
It was only in 1950, with the publication of The Perfect Matrimony, that the teachings for how to consciously channel sexual volatility were first taught. Such knowledge, within the Piscean Era, remained veiled, but now, due to Aquarian generosity, is being disseminated.
The Avatar of Aquarius and the Sexual Mysteries
Each cosmic era has always determined the spiritual and religious climate of humanity through the qualities particular to each zodiac. Such powers demarcate the beginning and end of prophetic intervention: the manifestation of divine aid in the form of avatars, messengers, or heavenly beings, who come to renew and revitalize spirituality upon the earth after the divine teachings (dharma) degenerate.
Though I [Krishna, the Cosmic Christ] am unborn and of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, ruling over My own Nature, I am born by My own Maya [I enter materiality and manifestation].
Aquarius is symbolized by a female water carrier, and is the age when spiritual truth, knowledge, and esoteric instruction is freely given. Direct knowledge of divinity has always been represented in ancient traditions by water: the well of wisdom that nourishes and refreshes the soul in its thirst for divinity. The symbol of Aquarius represents the proliferation, depth, magnitude, and vastness of the secret teachings, which finds its culmination and synthesis within the writings of Samael Aun Weor.
As the avatar of the Aquarian Age and the founder of the modern Gnostic movement, he is known for his comprehensive approach to practical spirituality: the explanation of meditative and spiritual exercises to awaken consciousness. His particular gift to humanity is the wisdom or science of the waters, the methods for storing, sublimating, and elevating the sexual energies as a tool for spiritual transformation.
The creative sexual energies have always been symbolized by water and woman, the primordial Eve who is not only the departure, but the entry back into paradise: a blissful, conscious state before humanity had desecrated the sexual mysteries. Every Biblical cosmogony speaks, in symbolism, of the spiritual powers of water, a direct reference to sexual conduct. Through harmonizing one's sexuality with divine laws, the aspirant can return back to paradise, since the power of all life, including spirituality, is based on the creative impulse or libido. Samael Aun Weor's writings, marked by the unique character of the Aquarian influence, is a revolution against stagnant ideologies, dogmas, and incipient spiritual beliefs. His teachings are a war against all that is ineffective and weak, since the majority of spiritual aspirants, out of fear, superstition, inheritance, or religious indoctrination, cling to systems that do not affect genuine change, ignoring that without consciously harnessing the sexual energy, one cannot create spiritually. These facts are evident to any person who seriously analyzes and meditates upon the state of humanity, whose terrifyingly profound and pervasive suffering, predicated upon the misuse of sexuality, is unprecedented in our history. If humanity, which is so attached to its religions, beliefs, and doctrines, knew and practiced the science for overcoming suffering, then it would already be transformed. While many spiritual traditions and modern spiritual schools talk about divine principles, few actually offer effective methods to obtain direct experience of it. The sad reality is that most aspirants are ignorant of effective methods, or if in possession of them, lack consistent application, indulging in behaviors that produce sorrow. Since many do not want to renounce egotism, addiction, and theories, change becomes impossible and the doors of initiation remain closed. Samael Aun Weor came to teach the knowledge of how to work with the Aquarian waters, which we carry within our body in the form of our sexual energy, the sexual fluid. Through its conservation and transmutation, we can learn to become initiates: true spiritual revolutionaries who enter into direct experience of the divine, based on the most powerful, creative force of the universe for the empowerment of our spirituality. 
Aquarian Philosophy and Alchemy
Alchemy is the science of Dionysian, Aquarian intoxication and spiritual elevation that Friedrich Nietzsche knew and articulated in his philosophy:
Watch for every hour, my brothers, in which your spirit wants to speak in parables (the language of Kabbalah through the science of dreams): there lies the origin of your virtue (etymologically relating to the root word virya, "warrior" in Sanskrit, virility, sexual potency). There your body is elevated and resurrected; with its rapture it delights the spirit so that it turns creator and esteemer and lover and benefactor of all things...
Such a stellar influence is referenced within the writings of M. in The Dayspring of Youth:
"The Dayspring of Youth has several strands that run into us as a stream runs into the ocean, and each strand is the manifestation of some attribute of the Innermost. Though at first we cannot register these ever-increasing waves of energy we can tune our own wave-lengths by aspiration (transmutation, to in-spire the vital breath and raise it, as-pire, to the mind and heart). We then bend these waves into our secondary system (our sexual glands and energies) by attracting their (spiritual) atoms into us and gaining their intelligence." ―M. The Dayspring of Youth
The primary power of the Aquarian influence, the Dayspring of Youth, is its capacity to grant spiritual intelligence, wisdom, and understanding. Master M. (Morya) indicates how the sexual energy, influenced by the Dionysian influence: the Dayspring of Youth, determines every aspect of our existence, including our spirituality:
"When we determine to do a thing it has already been accomplished within our secondary system (sexual glands, nervous channels, and energies, since the transformation of the libido grants one the power to create and perform either profound spiritual action or negative behaviors), and this gives us a determination to work and accomplish this on the objective plane. But we generally fail if we do not consciously or unconsciously draw upon the determinative (sexual, Dionysian) energy in Nature (through the astrological sign of Aquarius). If we use this principle we shall complete our determined work in this life or in our next incarnation (since the Aquarian influence accelerates all spiritual endeavors through its rebellious character). For we all incarnate to gain certain experiences, and we can not be happy if we fail in this." ―M., The Dayspring of Youth 
The Aquarian Calendar
Many world religions have their traditions, observances, and calendar. The Gnostic movement is no different.
Thus, 1962 will be the first year of Aquarius. All the brothers of the Gnostic Movement should date their letters according to the new era. ―Samael Aun Weor, Christ and the Virgin: Supreme Christmas Message of 1961-62: "The New Aquarian Age"
There is some confusion regarding dates in the Aquarian calendar. The first Aquarian year began on February 4th, 1962 and culminated on February 4th, 1963. Since February 4th, 1962-63 is the first year of Aquarius, then the second Aquarian year spanned from February 4th, 1963-64, and so on. For example:
February 4th, 2024 marks the end of the 62nd year of Aquarius and the beginning of the 63rd Aquarian New Year. When you subtract the current year (2024) by the advent of Aquarius (1962) you arrive at the number of completed Aquarian years (62). Since it is February 4th, 2024, we are initiating the Aquarian New Year, the 63rd in the gnostic calendar. 
Conclusion
The Aquarian New Year commemorates the advent of the initiatic, alchemical knowledge to humanity. Since all of us were born from the sexual seed, our potential to create the spiritual human being is also predicated on yoking both internal and universal forces. The synthesis of a person is their seminal matter, which, as the prima matter of any cosmic body, is the source and originator of all things, including animals, demons, human beings, and gods.
In the crude root of our existence, we only find the coitus of a man and a woman...
Celebrate the Aquarian New Year through profound meditation, deep reflection on the teachings, and if you can, the company of spiritual friends!
Resources on the Aquarian Mysteries
(Samael Aun Weor, the founder of the modern Gnostic tradition)
Today is a very special day within gnostic esoterism, because October 27th commemorates the advent or incarnation of divinity within the author, lecturer, healer, Gnostic leader, and spiritual guru Samael Aun Weor.
The term advent stems from the Latin adventus, indicating "arrival," a translation of the Greek παρουσία Parousia: the divine "presence." Incarnation signifies how deity, divine abstraction, or spiritual potential becomes actualized in the flesh. The ecclesiastical roots of the Latin verb incarno points towards the prefix in- and caro, "flesh," whereby the spirit becomes internalized and manifested in the terrestrial personality of a qualified and properly prepared individual. On October 27th, 1954, the founder of the Gnostic Movement incarnated, through rigorous spiritual discipline and initiatic works, his innermost divinity, the Greek λόγος logos or angelic intelligence of the planet Mars. Samael was known throughout the Hebraic scriptures, particularly The Zohar, as the controversial angel responsible for temptation, judgment, and redemption. Both a source of confirmation and contestation, the Angel Samael provides the strength and ordeals necessary for inner self-transformation. However, deep spiritual change and progress is predicated upon struggle, which is why the great saints and prophets always had to prove their character through facing the rigorous tests imposed by this being (see Jacob wrestling the Angel Samael in Genesis 32:22-32). This explains why Samael Aun Weor's books are so controversial and penetrative: they strike at the heart of one's deepest morals and sentiments, compelling readers to grapple with their relationship to self, humanity, and divinity in an uncompromising manner. In Greek, the Angel Samael was known as Ἄρης Ares, the God of War, but not a war against other countries, peoples, or religions, but with psychological and spiritual corruption. Likewise, numerous mythologies have documented, throughout religious antiquity, the universal influence of this great angel, whose potency is correlative with the prevalence and intensity of humanity's ignorance. The greater the spread of religious, institutional, and societal degeneration, the greater this angel has strived to alleviate suffering and rectify error. As the warrior of God, this angel fights, out of compassion, against egotistical tendencies and human weakness, so that the soul becomes strong through adversity. Through spiritual battle, Samael provides strength and opportunity for the consciousness to triumph. This is why on October 27th, we invoke this master to provide us with the spiritual fortitude necessary to comprehend, meditate, and eliminate our psychological defects. This day is best observed through reflection on our own egotism, pride, selfishness, and conflicting desires. In deep meditation, it becomes possible to purify the psyche. On October 27th, we can dedicate ourselves more diligently to meditation, prayer, and self-reflection, so that through calling upon the strength of God expressed through the Angel Samael, we can in turn be more inspired to practice, change, and affect genuine transformations in our daily life. This process is facilitated through the energy of Christ, whose cosmic intelligence and force permeates all of nature and the universe. Christ as a divine principle expresses in forms as diverse as the world's religions and their founders. Jesus of Nazareth was one of many masters who internalized and perfected such an intelligence within himself. Samael Aun Weor is also one amongst many such members of the universal fraternity and internal college of initiates who operates in the superior worlds, serving and providing the doctrine of our internal savior to humanity.
We can also celebrate and commemorate the Advent of Samael through the sacred Eucharist. As an essential practice within the Gnostic Church, the Eucharist can provide inner strength, inspiration, and profound wisdom, for by assimilating the energy of Christ, divinity can embolden and invigorate our spirituality. By ingesting the body and blood of this cosmic force, we can develop deeper insights into our errors and the ways the overcome them. The Eucharist can be practiced within the solitude and sanctity of our own homes, since each individual is called to become a priest or priestess within the rites and higher calling of the perfect matrimony. Couples and single practitioners can invoke the Martian manifestation of the Christic energy, Samael, since this powerful aspect of divinity teaches us how to defend what is right and remedy what is harmful.
On this day, the Martian Christ entered within his bodhisattva or human soul, Samael Aun Weor. Through this act, a great being was able to complete a tremendous humanitarian mission. Samael Aun Weor, the terrestrial expression of his internal divinity, wrote extensively about the spiritual path as expressed throughout the great religious traditions of antiquity. His great contributions and service to humanity include his extensive writings on the universal source of all religions, accompanied by the explanation of numerous revolutionary practices for the alleviation of suffering and the complete development of our human potential. Such techniques were previously expressed in symbolic and allegorical form within the scriptures of both East and West, and this prolific author dedicated his life to explain the esoterism and application of these practices for the betterment of humanity. What distinguishes this esotericist is the accessibility and didacticism of his writings, since they were presented with a clarity, depth, and practicality that is uncommon within the contexts and history of esoteric literature. For more information about this unique and wonderful man, you may study the following resources: |
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