In the last chapter, we referred extensively to the Initiator Element of dreams. Obviously, we only lack the ability to use it.
When the Gnostic has kept a record of his dreams, he unquestionably discovers a dream that recurs. This, among other reasons, certainly justifies writing all dreams in his notebook or pad.
That dream experience — always recurring — is the Initiator Element that, wisely used, leads us to the awakening of Consciousness.
Every time the mystic lies on his bed goes to sleep and meditates at will on the Initiator Element, the result is immediate. Usually, the anchorite re-lives such dreams consciously and is able to leave the scene at will, to travel in the supra-sensible worlds.
Any dream can be used for such purposes when we actually know the technique.
Whoever awakens from a dream can continue with it intentionally, if desiring to do so. In this case, he must go back to sleep and re-live that dream experience with imagination.
We must not imagine that we are imagining. Fundamentally, we should re-live the dream in its full and crude reality.
Repeating the dream intentionally is the first step towards the awakening of Consciousness. The voluntary separation from the dream, in plain action, is the second step.
Some aspirants take the first step, but they lack the strength to take the second one. Such people can and should help themselves by means of the technique of meditation.
By making serious decisions, those devotees will practice meditation before going to sleep.
The motive of concentration and reflection in their inner and deep meditation will be, in this case, their inner situation….
In this practice, the mystic in sorrow, feeling sincere emotion, will invoke his Divine Mother Tonantzin (Devi Kundalini).
Shedding tears of pain, the ascetic Gnostic will lament his state of unconsciousness and will implore for help, beseeching his Divine Mother for strength to detach himself at will of any dream.
The goal this dream discipline seeks is to prepare the disciple to clearly recognize the Four Blessings that manifest in the dream experience.
This esoteric discipline is certainly only for very serious people, for it demands infinite patience and enormous inner super-efforts.
Samael Aun Weor
A lot has been said in the Orient about the Four Lights of Dream; let us study this matter.
The first one is called the Revealing Light. It is written in gold letters in the Book of Life that this is perceived just before, or during the first hours of sleep.
Speaking frankly and to the point, let us point out that, as sleep becomes deeper, the undesirable melding of residual impressions and the usual train of discriminatory thoughts fortunately dissolve slowly.
In this stage of sleep, the second illumination progressively shows. This is known in Asia by the marvellous name of Increasing Light.
The ascetic Gnostic, by means of the extraordinary Tantric Dream discipline, gets beyond this stage and apprehends the two remaining lights.
The full experience of the crude reality of practical life in the Superior Worlds of Cosmic Consciousness grants the third light, the Immediate Realisation.
The fourth light is that of the Inner Profound Illumination, and it comes to us as if by enchantment in plain mystical experience.
“Here, in the fourth degree of the void, dwells the child of the Clear Mother Light,” states a Tibetan treatise.
Frankly speaking, I assert that the Tantric Dream discipline is in fact an esoteric preparation for that final dream that we call death.
Having “died” many times at night, the anchorite Gnostic who has consciously apprehended the Four Blessings, which present themselves in the dreaming experience, passes to the post mortem state when he dies, with the same ease that he willingly gets into the World of Dreams.
Outside his physical body, the Gnostic can consciously verify by himself, the fate reserved to the souls beyond death.
If, every night, by means of the Tantric Dream discipline, the esotericist can consciously “die” and penetrate in the World of the Dead, he will then be able as well, to “study the ritual of Life and Death while the officiant arrives. ”
After he visited the infernos, where he saw in horror the fate of the lost souls, Hermes became acquainted with unknown facts…
Watch to that side (Osiris tells Hermes). Do you see that hive of souls who try to climb up to the Lunar region? Some are rushed down to the ground, just like flocks of birds under the blows of a storm. The other ones, with the strokes of their wings, reach the superior sphere, which pulls them on its rotation. Once they reach there, they recover the sight of divine things.
When burying those chosen by Tlaloc, the rain god, the Aztecs placed a dried branch [nearby] It was said that, when the blessed one reached the Field of Delights or Tlalocan, the dried branch turned green again indicating in this way the return to a new life…
Those who have not been chosen by the Sun or Tlaloc, fatally go to Mictlan, which is in the north; a region where the souls undergo a series of magic trials on passing through the infernal worlds.
There are nine places where the souls suffer unbearably before reaching the final rest.
This reminds us, in an emphatic way, of the nine infernal circles of Dante Alighieri’ s Divine Comedy.
Many are the gods and goddesses who populate the nine Dantean circles of the Aztec inferno.
Let us remember in this Christmas Message 1974-1975, the frightful Mictlantecuhtli and the tenebrous Mictecacihuatl, the Lord and Lady of the Infernos [respectively] inhabitants of the Ninth and deepest underground of those places.
The souls who undergo the trials of the Aztec inferno, later enter joyfully after the “second death,” the paradises of the elementals of Nature.
Unquestionably, those souls who neither descend to the infernal worlds after death, nor ascend to the Kingdom of the Golden Light, or to Tlaloc’s paradise, or the Kingdom of Eternal Concentration, etc., will come back or return sooner or later to a new physical body.
The souls, chosen by the Sun or Tlaloc, rejoice much in the Superior Worlds before returning to this Vale of Samsara.
The anchorite Gnostics, after having grasped the Four Lights of Dream, can consciously visit the Tlalocan every night, or go down to the Mictlan, or contact those souls who, before returning, [still] live in the Lunar region.
Samael Aun Weor
