The Second Degree of the Venusian Initiation, the superior octave of its corresponding Initiation of Fire, transcendentally appeared as an esoteric result of the miraculous ascent of the radiant Second Serpent of Light towards the interior and upper regions by the medullar spinal canal of the vital organic reserve (lingam sarira).
It certainly was an unexpected, magic encounter the one I had with John in the Garden of the Hesperides, where the rivers with the pure water of life flow with milk and honey…
I wish to refer with great solemnity to the Baptist, living reincarnation of Elias, that colossus that lived in the roughness of the Carmelo’s mountain having for company the vicinity of wild beasts, and from where he used to emerge as lighting to sink and raise kings. Super-human creature, sometimes visible, other times invisible, which was respected until death.
Clearly, the esoteric divine Baptism of the Christus John has very deep archaic roots.
It is appropriate to remember in this paragraph the Baptism of Rama, the Christ- Yogi of the Hindustan:
When they were at a half yodjana from the southern bank of the river Sarayu, Visvamitra said sweetly: “Rama, it is convenient that you throw water over yourself, according to our rites. I am going to teach you our greetings so as not to waste any time. First receive those two marvelous sciences: the Potency and the Ultra Potency. They will prevent tiredness, old age or any other injury from invading your limbs”.
Having finished this speech, Visvamitra, the man of the mortifications, initiated Rama, who was already purified in the waters of the river and was standing up, the head inclined and the hands together, into the two sciences.
(This is a text from the “Ramayana” and it invites the good Christians to meditate).
The adamantine baptismal foundation can unquestionably be found in the Sahaja Maithuna (Sexual Magic).
It was urgent that full information on Sex-Yoga was given to the candidate before receiving the baptismal waters.
Rama had to be informed in advance by Visvamitra before being baptized. In this way he got to know the sciences of the Potency and Ultra Potency.
The key to the Baptism can be found in the scientific transmutation of the spermatic waters of the first instant.
The baptismal sacrament is in itself full of a deep meaning: it is in fact a sexual commitment.
To become baptized is thus equivalent, in fact, to signing a pact of Sexual Magic. Rama knew how to fulfill this terrible agreement: he practiced the Sahaja Maithuna with his priestess wife.
Rama transmuted the seminal waters into the Wine of Light of the alchemist and at the end he found the Lost Word; the Kundalini having become the Logos, flowered in his fertile lips. Then he was able to say with all the strength of his soul, “The King is dead, long live the King!”.
In the presence of the Christus John I could feel in my whole Cosmic Being the deep meaning of Baptism.
“The Nazarenes are known as Baptists, Sabeans and Christians of St John. Their belief was that the Messiah was not the Son of God, but simply a prophet that wanted to follow John”.
Origen (Vol. II, page 150) observes that “there are some that say of John the Baptist that he was the Anointed One (Christus)”.
When the metaphysical conceptions of the gnostics, that saw in Christ the Logos and the Anointed One, started to gain terrain, the primitive Christians separated from the Nazarenes, who accused Jesus of perverting the doctrines of John and exchanging the baptism on the Jordan with another one.
(Codex Nazaraeus, page 109).
I will conclude this chapter emphasizing the following: when the Second Serpent of Light made contact with the atom of the Father in the magnetic field at the root of the nose, the Christ-Sun shone over the Waters of Life and the initiatory final ceremony took place.
Let the blessings from Amenzano, with their inalterability, be for all eternity.
Amen!
Samael Aun Weor
