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Each of the prime numbers has its own identity. 23 is the number for physical immortality, everlasting life, eternal youth, and the secret of the Holy Grail. Prime numbers are those numbers that can not be divided by any other number.

Other primes: 11 is the number of magick, 13 is feminine unity, 17 is masculine unity.

The association of 23 with physical immortality has been developed in the writings of Aleister Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson, and myself. Crowley gave meaning to all the primes between 11 and 100. He felt that 23 was the frequency of the life force at its highest in nature, at the spring equinox. For mystics, immortal life is present in nature, and to find life at its highest vibration anywhere is to touch the secret of the Grail.

Wilson, who is greatly influenced by Crowley, made 23 into his supreme number for synchronicity. Be aware of 23 as it

appears in your life, and it will guide you along your pathway of magick and greater life.

It seems as if the universe has mysteriously placed 23 in many locations to act as signposts for the journey. Thankfulness is the quality of physical immortality. Try to generate this virtue in every environment in which you notice the magickal prime, 23.

The Significance of the Phoenix

Various tales abound concerning the mythical firebird, the Phoenix. From east to west, and north to south, many have caught a glimpse of its unrivalled beauty, but few have heard its undying song. Its colour is crimson (Mars) and gold (Sun) with a plume of purple (Pluto). The flames of its funeral pyre are fuelled by frankincense (Love) and myrrh (Law). Eternal symbol of Physical Immortality, the Phoenix makes its nest in the top of the Everlasting Tree of Life.

The Phoenix is the higher frequency symbol for Aquarius, the Bearer of the Cup containing the Waters of Life. The Phoenix of Aquarius represents the collective or planetary gaining of

Everlasting Life. Those who have the Seal of the Phoenix upon them are the torchbearers of Immortality. They have

discovered their Highest Purpose is to attain Physical

Immortality in this Life and dedicate themselves to directing Immortal energies for the Evolution of a New Planetary

Structure capable of supporting Greater Expressions of Life. If you are one of these beings, then visualize the Seal of the Phoenix upon your brow, or third eye, chakra. The Spirit of the Aquarian Phoenix anoints thee! This Touch of the Fire Bird upon your forehead ignites the pyre that consumes all Chains of Mind and creates Perfect Freedom. Life can not confer the Seal or Grade of the Phoenix upon you until you take the conscious Vow to overcome death and to dedicate yourself to the communication of the Immortal Way.

The Truth and Way of Life Eternal is a most precious Gift to share!

Copyright © 2005-2009 Robert Coon

"Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a

certain kind which reproduces itself.The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on

frankincense andodoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branchesof an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh,and of these materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its lastbreath amidst odors. From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destinedto live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength,it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent's sepulchre), and carries it to the cityof Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun."- Ovid

The Phoenix's "instinct teaches him to keep out of the way of the tyrant of the creation, man,for if he were to be got at, some wealthy glutton would surely devour him, though there wereno more in the world."- Alexander Ross

The Phoenix Bird by Hans Christian Andersen

In the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born.

His flight was like the flashing of light, his plumage was

beauteous, and his song ravishing. But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one—the one solitary Phoenix bird. The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg.

The bird flutters round us, swift as light, beauteous in color, charming in song. When a mother sits by her infant’s cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant’s head. He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet.

But the Phoenix is not the bird of Arabia alone. He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern Lights over the plains of

Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the short Greenland summer. Beneath the copper mountains of Fablun, and England’s coal mines, he flies, in the shape of a dusty moth, over the hymnbook that rests on the knees of the pious miner. On a lotus leaf he floats down the sacred waters of the Ganges, and the eye of the Hindoo maid gleams bright when she beholds him.

The Phoenix bird, dost thou not know him? The Bird of

Paradise, the holy swan of song! On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of

Iceland swept the swan’s red beak; on Shakspeare’s shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin’s raven, and whispered in the poet’s ear “Immortality!” and at the minstrels’ feast he fluttered

through the halls of the Wartburg.

The Phoenix bird, dost thou not know him? He sang to thee the Marseillaise, and thou kissedst the pen that fell from his wing; he came in the radiance of Paradise, and perchance thou didst turn away from him towards the sparrow who sat with tinsel on his wings.

The Bird of Paradise—renewed each century—born in flame, ending in flame! Thy picture, in a golden frame, hangs in the halls of the rich, but thou thyself often fliest around, lonely and disregarded, a myth—“The Phoenix of Arabia.”

In Paradise, when thou wert born in the first rose, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, thou receivedst a kiss, and thy right name was given thee—thy name, Poetry.

he Grail Quest.

You are upon the High Way of Divine Life. The Universe is observing your spiritual journey with great interest. On special occasions, our individual Ways have intersected and

communed within profound densities of Life and Joy. I am certain that our Pathways shall cross in Service to the Divine on many occasions as we travel deeper into the Heartland of the New Aeon which is now unfolding. May each such crossway Anoint the Lord of Life within every Being.

As we enter the 21st century, I perceive that both we and the

earth are entering very important phases of our personal journeys. The challenges, purifications and initiations of Bodhisattvahood are beginning to manifest frequently and visibly within our experience of Living and Serving upon this earth. This business of becoming a Bodhisattva is a very tricky one! Especially here in the West. I wish you every success within the birth-chamber of your initiation.

The Bodhisattva

The Bodhisattva is known as The Master of the Grail. For the Bodhisattva is a woman or a man who has managed to remove all limitations of ego from Self so that there is no inner

resistance to either receiving or giving the Communion of the Holy Grail. When we have removed all resistance to giving and receiving from our Wills, our Minds, our Hearts, and our

Bodies, then the Richness of True Communion begins to be experienced in every situation. There are five degrees of Initiation beyond the Master of the Grail - the Bodhisattva.

Through each of these five degrees, the magick of Divine Communion becomes deeper, more creative, and more

expansive. In the final stages of this process, all resistance to perpetual Communion with Total and Infinite Life is abolished from the physical Body. This is the Christing of Flesh - the attainment of Physical Immortality, where the alchemical Wedding of Body and Spirit is consummated. Through Total Communion, the Triumph of Life is Complete.

Illusions are parasites dependent upon dualities. Dualities are not real. At the Heart of Communion, Immortal Transformation - complete Union with the Divine - occurs, and all dualities and all illusions vanish. Only the Eternal Joy of Radiant Truth

remains... The Word is made Flesh... You and the Father-Mother are forever and ever One.

The Magick of Communion

In Service to the Theme of Life, I would like to devote the pages of this essay to an exploration of the Magick of

Communion. Let us breathe together - You and I - in the Here and Now. And Let us invoke - You and I - the Living Spirit of Truth, Here and Now, to Be With Us and to Illuminate the Way of Communion... Oh Let It Be!

We begin exactly where we are: What can I assume about you here in this instant? You are alive and you are choosing to let these words and thoughts into your consciousness - into your Life. Here we have the basic conditions needed for

Communion. For Communion is always about Life, Choice, and Change. The Art of Communion is Pure Magick, for Magick is the Art of giving birth to Change that is in harmony with your Unique True Will. These words are Alive - radiant with the Abundance of Immortal Joy... Feast upon these Words... And may the Recreation of Christed Life be established throughout thy Flesh!

In the Russian Orthodox Church, the Holy Spirit is invoked to activate the bread and wine. This is a Ritual of essential

importance. The conscious and sincere Invocation of the Living Spirit of Truth increases the potency of Divine Grace within every form of Communion. Let us, once again, consider our present situation: In this instant of time, I am writing these words. In this instant of time, you are reading them. Through Communion, our experiences are transcending linear time. In Eternity, the mutual interchange of all experience is complete and simultaneous at all times. The Divine knows your needs before you ask - but you still need to ask! The Invocation of the Holy Spirit is the most effective way to do this asking.

If the white wafer used in many Christian Churches can act as the Body or Flesh of Christ, surely any object can. These

wafers contain no nutrition and look like they are made out of plastic. The humble nature of these wafers is something to meditate upon... I urge you to try this experiment now: Let these words take the place of the white wafer. To take the Christ Nature which is Alive within these words and to absorb them into your Life - this is Communion. Invocation maximizes the efficiency of this Divine Process.

Now let us give our spiritual attention to this experiment:

Breathe deeply for a few minutes; create a heart-centered

energy of radiant thanksgiving and peace through this

breathing: visualize this sphere of generated divine qualities expanding with every breath cycle to permeate the immediate area surrounding you to a distance of at least 10 feet in every direction. You have now created a resonating field that is

naturally attractive to the creative intelligence of the universe.

Continue to breathe and to hold this meditation...

To awaken and activate the Spirit of Truth is the next step:

Add the additional outward heart-radiation of Divine Praise to your generating sphere. The Fiery Quality of Praise always has a very special effect - the Shekinah, or Visible Manifestation of the Divine, is nurtured and illuminated by such a baptism of Praise. The final step before actual Invocation is now to be accomplished. Verbally and silently, affirm and pray with heart and will united in this effort - with energy, belief, thought and word, praise the Living Spirit of Truth. Send forth this radiant Praise to the Holy Spirit of Truth for several minutes, until you feel a Creative Connection has been established. It is essential to offer this Praise to Truth for two main reasons: (1) We need to give Divine Blessings before we can receive; (2) As stated above, Praise brings out the Shekinah or Visible Nature of the Spirit of Truth, so that all the spiritual senses may have

something tangible to work with during and after Invocation.

We are now ready to consecrate All Life by Invoking The Living Spirit of Truth. The best invocations are always created in the Here and Now. I will not offer you a written invocation here - it's best to make up your own. When the Will is clear about the purpose of the prayer or invocation, then the Words flow with ease from the Heart. Our purpose in this experiment is simple and clear: We are to invoke the Living Spirit of Truth to fill this moment with Divine and Creative Blessings so that our

Communion with it shall be of the Highest Use. We seek to establish a Spiritual Relationship with these words so that its Christ Nature may flow into our Body Temple and Aliveness in a totally efficient, fertile, and unrestricted manner. We seek to establish a "superconductivity" of Divine Relationship so that the Total Truth may encounter no resistance as it Joyfully Recreates our individual unique expressions of the Divine.

It is important to develop your own style of Invocation. Here is one classic style: When ready, raise your hands, with palms upwards, to the heavens. Verbally make your Invocation to

the Holy Spirit of Truth. Inhale the Holy Spirit into your hands, and then bring this energy down into the center of your heart.

Let the Holy Spirit unite with the Blessings of your Heart for an instant. Then exhale the combined Grace of the Holy Spirit and your own Heart out through your hands and directly into the world. If appropriate, the verbal Invocation may extend over both the inhalation and exhalation phases of this process.

There are several variations involved here which you will discover through experimentation.

Now that our wafer is consecrated, it's time to feast! May these offerings contribute to a deeply experienced Inner Communion with the Divine in a wide variety of situations, relationships, and sacred locations in your life. Through the magick of this consecration, may your interaction with these writings create change, illuminate synchronicities, and initiate ever-deepening experiences of individual liberty. Take your time and enjoy... If you come across a thought or passage contained herein that particularly interests you, then pause and breathe, meditate, invoke, commune, explore... The Waters of Infinite Life may burst forth from any and every situation.

Aeon of the Immortal Child

In this new Aquarian Aeon of the Immortal Child which we are now entering, the Liberation of Communion is destined to develop as a principal description of the global and individual changes we shall experience. In old ways of thinking,

communion is something reserved for special times and is only available from an intermediary priest. This Piscean Age

attempt to limit certain times and certain situations goes against the very nature of the Christ Life which Is True Communion. The Christ Nature within each of us is forever proclaiming: "I am the Way of Everlasting Life! I am the Way of Life Triumphant, Beautiful and True!" The Kingdom of

Infinite Life is within You. Share this infinite Kingdom with the creator and the creation through every thought, word and action. In this Way, you fulfill your role in the Aquarian Liberation of Communion. Christmas Everywhen and Easter

Everywhere - the Birth of Christ and the Triumph of Christ through the Immortal Transformation of Matter: These two events are perpetual and are happening totally all the time and in every situation. Mastery of the Art of Communion makes this Truth evident and opens the Way for you to become a Co-creator involved in both the Birth and the Triumph of Immortality at all times. In the Judaic-Christian Tradition, the True Masters of Communion are known as the High Priests and High Priestesses of Melchizedek.

Melchizedek

Melchizedek is one of the most ancient Immortals mentioned in the Bible. One esoteric tradition suggests that he attained his Physical Immortality at the age of 52, after developing a perfect Angelic Communion with the Archangel Michael.

Michael is the angel of Trust, Intuition, Sharing, and all forms of Communication - all ideal qualities inherent within the dynamics of Inner Communion. Michael is associated with the planet Mercury and Tree of Life sphere Hod. Fifty-two is one of the great sacred numbers: It is 4 × 13. Thirteen is the number of feminine unity: 52 extends this Shekinah quality to the four directions. Fifty-two is the number of years in one Heaven cycle in the sacred Aztec Calendar. We entered such a 52-year cycle at sunrise on 17th August, 1987 Mexican time. This

event was well publicized and was popularly known as

"Harmonic Convergence." In the Hindu Tradition, there are said to be 52 different interpretations of the Veda and 52 corresponding pronunciations of "Aumgn (Om)" to go with each interpretation.

From the beginning, Melchizedek has always been devoted to the creation of the New Jerusalem, or the Earthly Paradise.

This devotion of Will was clearly formulated during his

Immortal Initiation through Michael. The present Work of the Melchizedek Priesthood is developing in harmony with the 12 year cycle of Jupiter. The present cycle began in February 1999 and culminates in 2011. The primary goal of this period is to begin the activation of 52 Cardinal Sacred Sites on the planet. This work is to be accomplished in four 19 year cycles,