Let’s first specify what an authentic initiation is. It is the permanent and voluntary access to an interior state related to the planes above 10. The access to a level - for instance 6 - does not imply that the Initiate lives there permanently. He lives in 10, like everybody else, but he has access in 6 any time he desires, and maintains there the “time” he wants to. In other words the authentic initiation gives to the “awakened” student access at will to a space-time of which he has the mastery.
True initiations are only given only by the Inner Master. None of the symbolic initiations delivered by “masters” or schools have a durable value in the Invisible. To those that have established the conversation with the Inner Master in their previous existence, the Presentation to the Temple takes place at the age of twelve during a ceremony in the Invisible where the former powers are revived. The Presentation to the Temple, or the conversation with the Inner Master, often generates two types of specific experiences: one concerns ceremonies of initiation that take place in a landscape and a setting of the past, generally distant by two or three centuries. One cannot remember the physical location of the experience for several years. The other type of experience is similar to the symbolic initiations of the physical world but takes place in a complete out-of-body state. The ceremony takes place in an underground temple located under the Great Pyramid or in a temple that is evidently not of the Earth. The action of the Invisible Order intervenes in these ceremonies to give us the necessary means for the esoteric work to be undertaken.
Work on the energies practiced in Qabala and in Alchemy momentarily gives the access to the corresponding inner state on levels 9-8-7 and 6. This contact is not durable. It aims at an energetic rebalance for a certain time in the student. This work allows us to fill up with energy; similarly to what occurs when we go on vacation looking to benefit from the sun, pure air and a healthy lifestyle. Returning to our ordinary life with its difficulties, if we do not know how to keep this benefit stored during this break, it vanished gradually until it totally disappears. The same phenomenon happens in the initiatic contacts where the drawn energy also gradually recedes. Even if the initiatic contact was momentary, it has the enormous advantage that it begins to inform, illuminate and sometimes even instruct us on our Becoming. This can occur as early as level 9, although it is weak on this level. The student who walks the path should work if he wants his initiatic contact to last. When the contact is permanently acquired, the student has become the Initiate of the
level reached and only in this case. A change in his inner structures occurs that will remain for the duration of the present incarnation. He is now an authentic initiate. We will call him a “Knower”.
It was voluntarily that we previously used the expressions “Initiation of Duality” and “Initiation of the Nadir”. The state in which each element of the Original Human Seed has been propelled in each of these initiations can be considered as permanent because of their long duration, in the millions of years, and because of the mastery of progressively acquired grounds.
From the moment the Fire energy in its active aspect (Figure 2) begins to dominate, however slightly in the human structure, the power of creation of man automatically turns towards the “subtle”, the spiritual and the Invisible. The first true initiation that gives the first contact with our inner worlds is the mastery of level 9. Usually this occurs very slowly.
We must remember that the subtle energy of thought in a level is the matter of the level just above. Level 9, just above 10, will be woven out of our thought-forms. A small number of beings raise their thoughts to a level subtler than the 9th; however the majority
doesn’t go higher than this stage. Level 9 is truly cluttered with all manners of thought- forms. Primarily loaded with negative materiality, it is permanently emitted by the earth population and has been stored since the beginning of the Descent. Even though it is more subtle than ours in density this first level is still perceived like a world of grayish or even dark appearance, despite a growing number of individuals striving to emit constructive thoughts. This is why the initiation of this level requires an important work of purification. In order to function there, the being will need to keep only the useful knowledge acquired on level 10 and get rid of the heavy load of the Matter-energy. Let’s recall that junction 10-9 is path 32 in Qabala, illustrated by the tarot card “The World” which is the symbol of the first vision of the Invisible Universe (Figure 4).
The power of creation on level 8 is accessible to beings that have precisely mastered level 9. Purified and stripped of the Matter-energy they are no longer subject to its attraction. The perception of the world in 8 at its worst can seem slightly grayish. Only in the beginning will the contact with this plan be seen as visions of fairy tale castles. This is the first stage where walking the path of Return can be accelerated. This level can give and communicate to our consciousness powers and information for a faster cleanup of the levels that have not yet been put back in order. This level is the symbol of the mastery of the four elements, the symbol of the double quaternary, 2 times 4. In Alchemy, Mercury is assigned to it, as are Thoth and Hermes in Qabala. Hermes is Mercury, the messenger of the gods, which links the Visible with the Invisible. The elements of communication are found between “Matter and Spirit” on this level as we touched upon in the Mineral Tree.
The initiation on level 7 gives important contacts in the Water Tree whose nature, also “Active”, joins the Fire one to prepare the delicate passage to the upper level.
Level 6 is undoubtedly the essential stage of Return. At this stage, the Initiate has the information of all that is useful to follow his Path of Return. From there on, lessons, books or teachings are no longer necessary. The Initiate of level 6 has become the Master of his Becoming. It is interesting to recall the place occupied by this world in the Tree of
Qabala (Figure 4). Its power of information is due to its place in the center of the Tree where it is in communication with all other worlds.
Personal experiences and confidences from companions on the Path confirm that there are two key attributes of this level. The first is the conversation with the Inner Master. He can directly give us the instructions concerning our own Return in Eternity. To symbolically illustrate this conversation, the “Sepher Yetzirah”, the Book of the Creation, says that “the small king must rise from his throne so that the Great King can talk to him”. In other words, the brain of the Earth must be silent to understand the advice from the Inner Heart.
The other key attribute is the knowledge of the Path already completed, revealed through a scene unwinding inside a dream, through a vision or during the exteriorization of consciousness. We are seated in a classroom with a podium up front, lined with tables and benches, where the other students are seated behind us, and where the teacher at the board gives a course. This teacher is none other that the Inner Master or Upper Self. He talks about the role of the pupils behind us, which are none other that our past incarnations or more exactly the aftermath that remain through our Trees whose structures can still be altered. We are at what is called “Night School”, and there we are taught how we must reduce our difficulties. After each realization, one of the pupils disappears. When we remain alone in the classroom, the problems of the past are solved. Then, gradually, the teachings of the Night School change towards our future. At that stage the teaching is no longer done through symbols. The teaching becomes direct. The conversation with the Inner Master becomes possible. That is what has been named “the conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel”.
All our structures must be repaired in this passage on 6. The part of the Universe enclosing levels 4-5-6 demands a restoration of all the structures of our being since this work no longer possible in 3. This is probably the basis and the essential reason for the teachings of the Inner Master in the Night School. In order to neither disturb nor slow down the process of the teaching of that School, we must be totally silent on what we live and receive there. On level 8, the authority on occult powers (authority on the powerful invisible energies) is already awakened. This is even more so on level 6. These powers must be used only with extreme parsimony and total discretion. One cannot hinder Nature. Meditate to have the perception and the comprehension before having the powers. Always privilege Spirit over Matter.
The powers from their related initiations on levels 5 and 4 will only be used upon advice from the Inner Master. Level 5 deals with the use of Energy. Level 4 deals with access to Knowledge.
As for level 3, let’s specify here that the aim of this entire treatise is to try and obtain directly the momentary contact in 3 without going through the long paths of classical initiation.