To capture, apprehend, understand in an integral manner, the deep significance of the nine Masters that went looking for Hiram and his murderers, is urgent, and cannot be postponed.
Unquestionably none of the nine Masters went to the Northern regions, but cleverly separated into three groups of three each, and went respectively to the East, the South and the West. In fact, it was this last group who managed to find the grave and the murderers.
This symbolic esoteric pilgrimage of the nine Masters refers specifically to the individual pilgrimage that every Initiate must undertake in the Second Mountain, going through nine successive stages or grades totally enumerated and defined in the nine spheres:
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
We can—and even must—make the following announcement:
“Only by means of these intimate pilgrimages from sphere to sphere are we in the position to enliven and revive inside of ourselves the Secret Master, Hiram, Shiva, the Husband of our Divine Mother Kundalini, the Arch-Hierophant and Arch-Magus, the particular individual monad, our Real Being”…
It is one thing to be a Master, quite another to reach perfection in mastery.
Any esotericist who makes the To Soma Heliakon, the Wedding Dress of the Soul, in the Forge of the Cyclops becomes a Man and thus a Master. However, perfection in mastery is something quite different.
The number nine, applied to the rhetoric, places us within an intimate relationship with the nine eternal muses:
It is not too much to cite in this chapter each of these ineffable deities of the ancient classicism:
| 1. | Clio | 2. | Erato | 3. | Melpomene |
| 4. | Calliope | 5. | Euterpe | 6. | Thalia |
| 7. | Urania | 8. | Polyhymnia | 9. | Terpsichore |
Listen to me: a certain night, no matter the date, the day or the time, splendidly dressed in the Wedding dress of the Soul, I left the physical body at will…
Experiencing in the full presence of my Cosmic Being a certain exquisite spiritual voluptuousness, I floated softly in the aura of the Universe…
Feeling supremely happy I had to put my feet like a bird on the mud of the earth, under the green foliage of a taciturn tree…
Congratulations, I cried out in a loud voice invoking the Adepts of the Occult Brotherhood…
Unquestionably I was assisted…
The brothers lead me amicably to the marvellous Temple of the Transparent Walls…
The Mahatma stayed sitting down before his desk as he was attending to many people…
—I want to know—I said—what is it that I am in need of…
The Venerable One, getting from a drawer in his desk a certain secret book, consulted its pages and then answered:
—You are in need of fifty-eight (58) minutes. You must present here thirty-six (36) bolivares each of twenty-three (23) kilos. And the eight (8) Initiations that have been received must be accredited.
—Thank you, Venerable Master. Later on I left the Temple with infinite humility and veneration…
Kabbalistic analysis of this matter:
58 minutes: 5 plus 8, equals 13. This Arcanum signifies the death of all the subjective elements that constitute the Ego.
36 bolivares: 3 plus 6, equals 9. To break the chains and fetters in the submerged worlds of the nine planets referred to in this chapter… very intense work in the Burning Forge of Vulcan…
23 kilos: 2 plus 3 equals 5. The work of Liberation must be perfect under the splendours of the Burning Star of five points…
(It is not too much to remember now the Rishi Baha-Deva and his 23 prophets).
Accreditation
Before the true Resurrection, every one of the eight Initiations must be accredited. This is processed during eight years, during which we have to experience the Book of the Patriarch Job in all of its crude realism.
We emphasise solemnly the following declaration: “The eight Initiations will never be accredited in a period less that the one indicated above, of eight years…”
Obviously one year corresponds to each of the eight Initiations. As a corollary eight years are needed for the eight Initiations…
I clarify this: the already mentioned period of time corresponds exclusively to the epilogue of a whole mystical series of deep esoteric works carried out in all and each of the nine planets already referred to.
Undoubtedly, such works are processed in different periods of time, and sometimes are very delicate.
It is clear that every one who joins the Second Mountain receives no more Grades or Initiations.
The perfection in mastery is only reached with the esoteric transcendental Resurrection…
The full manifestation of the Monad inside the Resurrected Master bestows extraordinary magical powers upon him…
Samael Aun Weor
