Now comes the Third Labour of Hercules, the Solar Hero. I wish to refer emphatically to the capture of two animals, one of them being as delicate as the other is fast, turbulent and menacing: the Deer of Arcadia and the Wild Boar of Erymanthus.
We can and even must identify these famous quadrupeds with the two shining southern constellations closest to the stars of Gemini, that are near the two Centaurs, with which Hercules sustains a bloody fight.
In the Deer with feet of bronze and golden horns, sacred to Diana and contended for by Apollo, the God of Fire, we can see a clear reference to the Human Soul (the Husband of the Walkyrie), the superior Manas of Theosophy.
And in the terrible Wild Boar, more perverse than anybody, is the living symbol of all the low animal passions.
It is not too much to assert at this time that I yearned very sincerely and with the whole strength of my Soul to enter the Heaven of Venus, the causal world, the abode of the Principalities.
However, it is clear that first I needed to gain some merits, to reduce the frightful Boar to cosmic dust…
It is necessary before ascending to descend; every exaltation is always preceded by a terrible humiliation.
It was indispensable, urgent, to descend to the Venusian Hells before the ascent… It was necessary to have previous information; this, in itself, was pressing, peremptory…
Precise, extraordinary indications came to me during meditation. It is clear that the Initiate is always assisted…
On a great table, similar to the attractive board of a chess game, instead of the well known pieces of this game, I saw animal-like figures of revolting appearance…
Unquestionably, with the help of my Divine Mother Kundalini, I had eliminated defects of a psychological type, whether in the astral or in the mental world; however, their causal germs went on existing inside me, here and now…
In the sphere of the most pure experimental psychology, we can assert the following statement:
“The radical elimination of any psychological defect fails absolutely when there is no dissolution of its secret cause”.
To extirpate from my psyche such intrinsic causes, was certainly my task in the Venusian Hells…
It is clear that then I had to pass victorious through frightful carnal temptations, similar to those suffered by the gnostic patriarch St Augustine, at the foot of the cross…
“The gnostic mystery is present in the quiet flight of the dove,
and the sin of the world in the serpent that bites the foot of the angel who tames it.”
“Over the eternal night of the past opens the eternal night of the tomorrow.
Each hour, a germ of sin!
And the symbol: the serpent and the apple”.
Immense is the multitude of crimes whose causal germs I had to eliminate, and even if I had a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues and a voice of iron, I could not enumerate them all…
In the Tartarus, where the wicked are punished, I also found two old friends from my youth: one is still living, the other is already dead…
It is not too much to remember those Titans of ancient times that wanted to ascend up to heaven; they suffer now, chained in the abyss, because of the anger of Jupiter.
There also live the insolent Lapiths, and the impudent Ixion, who made an attempt on Juno, and Peirithous, who tried to abduct Persephone…
In the subterranean world also lives the proud Salmoneo, king of Elis, who claimed for himself divine honours, he being a simple mortal, a vile worm from the mud of the earth…
Moments before definitely abandoning the abode of Pluto, I saw something frightful, terrible, as if a huge, gigantic monster wanted to devour the whole humanity. Oh my God!
Later on in those atomic hells I felt transformed; the Cosmic Christ entered me and I got lost inside Him…
Then a multitude of mothers brought their children to me and I, full of ecstasy, said: “Let the children come to me, because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”.
How happy I felt with the transformed causal body! After blessing all of these tender infants, I abandoned the submerged mineral kingdom and entered victorious into the Heaven of Venus (the causal world).
In this way I returned to the state of the Principalities that in days of old I had lost, when in the central plateau of Asia I committed the same error as count Zanoni…
To surrender at the heavenly feet of the exquisite feminine beauty, to drink the liquor of the mandrakes, to eat of the Golden Apples of the Garden of the Hesperides, that was indeed the above mentioned error. However, working later on with the transcendent sexual electricity I was able to return to the path I had abandoned in days of old…
That marvellous causal world or world of the Conscious Will, so many times cited by Mr Leadbetter, Annie Besant, Arthur Power, Rudolf Steiner, H.P.B., etc., is clearly terror of Love and Law. Undoubtedly the Heaven of Venus is not of time, and is beyond the mind.
It is patent that the akashic substance, as a natural element and vibration or tattwa, constitutes in itself the living and philosophical depth of the world of cosmic causality…
The deep electric blue shines marvellous in that region and sparkles here, there, everywhere, saturating us with an exquisite spiritual voluptuousness that is indescribable…
The world of Natural Causes is like an ocean without limits and shores. The unceasing swell of Action and Consequence, flows and flows again, there, from instant to instant…
It is evident that there is no cause without effect nor effect without cause. Every action is followed by a reaction; from every act follows always a consequence…, or better, a series of consequences…
In that period of my actual existence I received much objective information which was both demonstrated and demonstrable.
Example: before the orator in a certain auditorium I present myself in front of the whole assembly; I do not know how to behave myself, I get involved in what I should not, I refute concepts…
Result: the speaker—a man from the causal world—leaves, infuriated…
Later on, the lecturer talks to others about my attitude and this is in fact leads to a whole concatenated series of consequences…
In the causal world I also saw, with mystical surprise, the future that lies in wait for the planet Earth and the human creatures that live in this physical wold…
Dressed up in the causal body I found myself suddenly in the interior of a great railway yard…
The Gnostic Movement is without doubt a train in motion: some passengers get on at a station and get off at another. Those that reach the final destination are rare…
Later on I had to submerge myself in the infinite starry space; I needed to investigate something in the amphitheatre of the Cosmic Science…
Surprised, in admiration—since I had not yet lost the capacity for astonishment— I could perceive with the Eye of Dangma or Eye of Shiva something unusual and unwonted…
Before my spiritual sight the Earth appeared, besieged by twelve enormous giants, black, sinister, menacing… (the twelve zodiacal constellations bringing about the definitive crystallization of the world karma).
People from other worlds are aware of the great catastrophe that will take place and will come close with their ships to register or photograph the cataclysm.
Here is the “Apocalypse” of St John in full flight. Collision of worlds. Oh my God!
It is timely to cite in this place some extraordinary verses from the Koran.
<< Among the signs that must precede the arrival of the last hour, is that of the Moon which will split in two. But in spite of this the unbelievers will not trust their eyes.
(It is obvious that this in no way can refer to a geological or physical division of our neighbouring satellite. This should be interpreted in a political and military way. The great powers will fight over the Moon).
On the day when the first trumpet resounds… When the Earth and the mountains will be taken in the air and crushed with one single strike… When heaven will be split asunder and will fall down in pieces… that day will be the inevitable day.
(Collision! That is the precise term. The planet Earth will collide with another world that is approaching dangerously).
This is the strike! That will be the day of the Final Judgment! Those who have deeds weighing heavily in the Balance, will have a pleasant life. Those who can only show light deeds will have for abode the burning pit (the infernal worlds).
When the Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake… When it has vomited the dead that rest in its entrails… That day mankind will be prepared for judgement.
The Sun will be torn, the stars will fall, the mountains will move and end up crashing to the ground. Heaven will burst into a thousand pieces and the seas and rivers will confound their waters. The graves will open and the dead will resurrect. Those who have practised righteousness will have happiness without limits, but the reprobates will be punished without measure. >>
Unquestionably, before the inevitable collision, the excessive approximation of that planetary mass will give rise to frightful electromagnetic storms.
It is clear that the presence of that sidereal world will exert an attraction over the liquid fire in the interior of our globe; then the igneous element will look for a way to get out, giving rise to innumerable volcanos.
At that time the Earth will shudder with terrible earthquakes and frightful seaquakes…
Villages and cities will fall down fatally like castles made of playing cards, become ruins.
Monstrous waves never seen before will beat with fury the sandy beaches and a very strange sound will rise up from the bottom of the sea…
Undoubtedly the extraordinary radiation of that planet will kill a million creatures and everything will be destroyed in an apocalyptic holocaust.
Peter or Patar, the Great Hierophant, said: “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the Earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up21”.
In the causal world I contemplated with mystical surprise the great catastrophe that was approaching, and since this is the region of the Ineffable Music, the vision was illustrated in the current of sound.
A certain delicious tragic symphony resonated among the deep depths of the Heaven of Venus.
That score amazed, in general, by its grandeur and majesty, and by the inspiration and beauty of its plan; by the purity of its lines and the colouring and nuances of its wise and artistic instrumentation, sweet and stern, grandiose and frightful, dramatic and mournful at the same time…
The melodic fragments (leitmotifs) that have been heard in the causal world, in the different prophetic situations, are of great expressive power, and are in intimate relationship with the great event and the historical incidents that inevitably will precede them…
There are in the score of this great cosmic opera, symphonic fragments related to the third world war, delicious and unfortunate sonorities, horrifying happenings, atomic bombs, frightful radioactivity in the whole Earth, hunger, total destruction of the great metropolis, unknowns illnesses, unceasing fights here and there, etc., etc., etc…
Intermixed with an art without precedent, they listened to themes related to the destruction of New York, Paris, London, Moscow, etc., etc., etc.
Samael Aun Weor
