PRACTICE #9
Imagination, inspiration, intuition are the three obligatory paths of initiation. We will examine each of these three steps separately.
Let’s start with the imagination:
For the wise, imagining is seeing. Imagination is the translucent of the soul. The important thing is to learn to concentrate thought on just one thing.
He who learns to think on one thing alone, does wonders and prodigies.
The disciple who wants to achieve imaginative knowledge must learn to concentrate and know how to meditate deeply.
The best exercise to achieve imaginative knowledge is as follows:
Sitting in front of a plant we concentrate on it until we forget everything that is not it. Then closing our eyes we will fall asleep preserving in our imagination the shape and figure of the plant, its structure, its perfume and its color.
The disciple must provoke sleep during these practices. The dozing off disciple will meditate deeply on the internal constitution of the vegetable.
The disciple will imagine the living cells of the plant. The plant cell has protoplasm, membrane and nucleus. Protoplasm is a viscous, elastic and transparent substance, very similar to egg white (Albuminoid Matter).
Dozing off, the disciple must reflect on the four fundamental elements of the protoplasm of the plant cell. These four elements are: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen.The membrane is a wonderful, colorless substance that is completely insoluble in water. That substance is the famous cellulose.
The disciple, well-concentrated will imagine the nucleus of the cell as a small corpuscle where the great universal life palpitates. Inside the nucleus is the nuclear filament, the nuclear juice, and the nucleoli all wrapped by the nuclear membrane. The nucleoli are infinitesimal corpuscles full of brightness and beauty, residual products of the incessant reactions of the plant organism.
The well-concentrated disciple must imagine with all logical precision, all those mineral substances and organic combinations that work harmoniously in the cellular protoplasm of the plant.
Think of the starch grains and the marvelous chlorophyll without which it would be impossible to achieve perfect organic synthesis. Chlorophyll comes in very beautiful yellow granules (Chloroleusites) (Xanthophyll). The latter under the sun’s rays is painted with that precious green of the vegetable. The entire plant is a perfect cellular community of incalculable perfections. The student must meditate on the perfection of the plant and in all its scientific processes, full of a mystical beatitude; and enchanted by so much beauty.
The mystic ecstasies remembering all the phenomena of nutrition, relation and reproduction of each vegetal cell.
Let’s look at the Goblet of the flower there are its sexual organs. There is the Male Reproductive Element Pollen. There is the Pistil or Gineceo, a precious female organ with its Ovary, Style and Stigma. The Ovary is a sack full of wonderful eggs. In relation to the Pistil, the stamens can occupy different positions: Insertion below the ovary, around the ovary or above the ovary.
Fertilization is verified with the function of the female germs and the male gametes. The pollen, male gamete, after leaving the antenna, then reaches the ovary of the plant where the ovule, female gamete, waits anxiously.
The seed is the precious and charming ovule that after being fertilized transforms and grows.
Now, the student remembers that time in which he is now meditating, sprouting like a delicate stalk. Imagine it growing slowly until you see it with your imagination sprouting branches, leaves, and flowers.
Remember that everything that is born has to die. Now imagine the process of plant dying. Its flowers wither, its leaves dry and the wind blows them away and finally only a few dry logs remain.
This process of being born and dying is wonderful. Meditating in all this process of the birth and dying of a plant, meditating in all that wonderful life of the plant, if the concentration is perfect, and if the dream (meaning that the physical body sleeps while the consciousness awakens) manages to become deep, then the chakras of the astral body rotate, develop and unfold.
Meditation must be correct. The mind must be exact. Logical thinking and exact concept are necessary in order for the inner senses to develop absolutely perfect.
All incoherence, any lack of logic and mental balance, obstructs and damages the evolution and progress of the disk, chakras, or lotus flowers of the astral body. The student needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads to failure. It takes patience, will, tenacity and absolutely conscious faith.
Endocrinology and Criminology. Samael Aun Weor
