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The Rite of Returning
In certain “schools” of Islam there are concepts called “Zahir” and “Batin.” Zahir means something which is exoteric or literal, while Batin refers to a more mystical and esoteric understandings of the Zahir. Certain schools of Islam take the Five Pillars and understand them in a more mystical point of view. The inner understanding does not replace the outer meaning, but compliments it. As within, so without.
The Star Game of the ONA, in the WSA has both a Zahir and a Batin. The Zahir of the Star Game is that it is a unique game which can be played as a board game, or used to apprehend insights and develop magickal skills. To the Acception, the Batin of the Star Game is that it represents the Game of Life itself as it unfolds in stages for the Player – the person living and experiencing life. Each of the Seven Boards of the Star Game esoterically in the Acception represents the 7 major progressive stages of growth in life towards what can be called Mastership or Adeptship of Causal Life:
1. Stage One: Birth to age 7.
2. Stage Two: 7 to age 14.
3. Stage Three: 14 to age 21.
4. Stage Four: 21 to age 28.
5. Stage Five: 28 to age 35.
6. Stage Six: 35 to age 42.
7. Stage Seven: 42 to age 49.
Just as the player of the Star Game gains insight and understanding about certain things AFTER the game is played; so does the person gain wisdom and understanding AFTER the 7 Stages have been experienced. It’s the experiences which the 50 year old person has collected, upon which she or he now reflects upon that makes her or him an “adept” of life. It would be strange to see how there is a gradual build up – progression – of wisdom and understanding about the mystery of Life, only to have the person decline and die. This decline in life, within the WSA is a causal illusion. Life is eternal, and we are as dead as we will ever be. This decline in life is much like the down slope of a ride at a theme park. It is part of the ride. When the ride is over, it does not mean the entire theme park is closed. There are other rides… and if a ride is fun, one can always return for a second round.The Rite of Returning in the WSA corresponds to the final grade of the Seven Fold Way – Immortal.
Returning to a new causal life is a natural process in many cases. The hard part is returning with your conscious Self. Self here means one’s memories, personality, and self awareness. Even harder is returning with the Self into a life one desires to experience. If in life the person lacks a command of his/her own life, where he or she has not learned to Master Life and control life with Mind and Will; then the potential for this same person to create or manifest a new life with Mind and Will is very slim. Therefore, working on progressing thru the 7 Stages of Life consciously trying to control every aspect of life, to later become a true conscious adept of Life later in old age is a crucial element to consciously Returning. The Rite of Returning (RoR) was designed by adepts of the Acception to teach other Disciples how to design a “future” life and return consciously with the Self in tact. The Rite is an aspect of Acausal Tantra and is a life long process/practice. There are different steps involved, which when practiced and mastered collectively forms the Rite.
The Seven Fold Way:
The first step the Disciple must strive to consciously master and experience is the ONA’s Seven Fold Way. Not only because of its magickal and practical values, but also because it forces the Disciple to face life in the raw, as it really is. People who do not walk the Seven Fold Way, in all that it means and implies, tend to become lost and asleep in the illusions of the city. A Mind that is asleep or lost, cannot find its way out, let alone Master Life. Consciously living the Seven Fold Way is an essential first step, which, to the Disciple, must be a life long “practice.”
Walking the Seven Fold Way here also implies doing it mindfully. That is to say that life should be lives with the Mind being focused and mindful of each experience and action. In the WSA this meditative act of living life mindfully is called “Samadhi Chittavida.” There is a difference between just drinking a hot cup of tea, and being mindful of the act of drinking a cup of hot tea. The second represents an act of Samadhi Chittavida. The Disciple must progressively learn to make its entire causal life one continuous Samadhi Chittavida. Experience in a progressive Samadhi Chittavida are like points one collects; called XP’s (eXperience Points) in the Acception. Each XP binds the Self/Mind to physical life. This can be understood in terms of playing a pinball machine. If one player of this pinball machine is not good at tilting and racking points, he/she will lose interest in the Game and walk away disinterested. Those players who have learned to score high points and work the pinball machine as an expert grows attached to the Game – or addicted – and must be pried away from their Game. Even if the Game ends for those high scorers who love the Game, they will put in the required coins to replay a new Game.
The Star Game:
The second step of the RoR is consciously learn to play the Star Game and learning to tie the concept of the Star Game to the concept of Life. The reasoning behind this is the same behind learning to induce conscious lucid dreaming. Mindfully seeing life as a dream, and constantly questioning the reality of life trains the Mind to see life as a dream. Tying Life to the Star Game helps condition the mind to see life as a game, which can not only be played, but mastered. Each move in the Star game is a causal move which produces a causal reaction and affects other pieces on the boards. Every act we make in life is acausal move, which produces a causal reaction and affects everything around us. Just as one move may causally affect another piece on a different board, so to does an action in one stage of life affect another stage of life, which manifests as experience.
The Tree of Wyrd:
The third step to the RoR is learning to “climb” the Tree of Wyrd – mindfully, and consciously. This doesn’t mean to just sit there and day dream. It means to practice working with the Spheres of the ToW in such a way so that in time one can fully immerse one’s conscious awareness completely outside the body and into the “Tree” itself. This takes time and conscious effort. The conscious mind must be trained to tune out the body and physical surroundings and fully “phase” into the “landscape” and experience of each Sphere of the Tree. This is crucial for later.
Cultivation:
Cultivation is the fourth step. Cultivation refers to the esoteric practice of cultivating Life Force to be used later. This Life Force is sometimes call Chi, at times in the west it is called Orgone, or Vril. The Acception prefers the word Vril over the others because of its “esoteric” interpretation the WSA gives to it. In 352 Vril is said to be a creative corruption or cognitive of the Greek word “Beryllos” and its Latin cognitive “Beryllus.” The Greek word itself means “a precious blue-green color-of-sea-water stone.” The Latin refers to a crystal called Beryl in English. In 352, the esoteric meaning is that Vril is much like a kind of ubiquitous “sea-water” which crystallizes into form. The mineral Beryl itself is composed of coherent hexagon shaped crystals. The Hexagon reminds us of the Tree of Wyrd.
In the Acception, cultivation of Vril begins with a practice called “Raising Leviathan,” (RL) which is taught in Chapter 5 of Opus Vrilis. RL should be practiced daily by Disciples. Practicing RL is called “Mono Cultivation.” This is when the Disciple learns to acquire and build up Life Force alone. Once the Disciple has learned to do the RL without much effort and has personally felt the presence of Vril buzzing in his/her body, the Disciple may go to the next stage of cultivation which is called “Dual Cultivation.”
As the name suggests, Dual Cultivation requires two (2) people, both practicing RL. The two people involved usually are male and female in coitus. Many Rites and rituals set forth in the Black Book of Satan such as the Rite of Nine Angles are preferred methods of Dual Cultivation, with the main difference being that during the actual act of coitus between the male and female, both are consciously practicing RL.
Ideally, the male sits in a comfy position, and the female sits on top of him, with his penis inside. The two cultivators rock back and forth slowly to build up something called jingchi – sexual energy, esoterically referred to as “Alchemical Lead.” Both raise and circulate leviathan/Vril up their spine, down their front meridian, but when the Vril reaches the genital region, it is passed into the partners body, and up the partner’s spine, down their front meridian, and then back into your body, and up your spine again – forming a figure 8 circulation of the Vril. This is very important because the vril of a female is a different charge than that of a male (yin & yang). Dual Cultivation mixes these two alchemical leads together transforming it into what is called Chi/Vitality, esoterically referred to as “Alchemical Mercury.”
Opposite genders don’t have to be involved. Sometimes two girls or two boys may also practice Dual Cultivation. But this is slightly different because the two people involved in this form of Cultivation both have the same vril charges (2 yins or 2 yangs). There are pros and cons to same sex cultivation. If the two people involved are homosexual and are greatly sexually attracted to each other, this would insure that a great amount of alchemical lead is produced, but because neither of them have the vril of opposite charge, alchemical mercury cannot be manufactured. As a side note, the more sexually attracted you are to your cultivating partner, the more lead you can manufacture. Your partner does not always have to know what you are doing for you to benefit. Adepts in China who are familiar with the esoteric practices of Taoism will also state that girls between the ages of 14-21 have the highest amount of female vril; whereas in boys those between the ages of 18-25 have a vigorous amount.
When two boys are dual cultivating the top sits in a comfy position, while the bottom “rides” the top. The same figure 8 circulation of the vril is done. With two girls the figure 8 circulation has to take a slight detour of sorts because neither has a connecting channel to introduce her vril into the body of the other, besides the tongue. The two girls sit in a tribbing position (girls will know what this means). The fingers are used to stimulate the production of alchemical lead, and during the session they must kiss and make sure their tongues touch and the roof of each others mouth often. This is because the vril will take a detour and jump tongues instead of genitals. When the vril is raised up your spine and is brought down it is passed into the partners tongue and down her front meridian, up her spine, and back down your front meridian.
To compensate for the lack of opposite charged vril the gay or lesbian couple must extract the needed opposite charged vril from other sources and this opposite charged vril is stored for later cultivation, when it is released and discharged into the vril flow/stream (the circulation). For the gay boys the moon is a natural source of yin chi. The sun is a natural source of yang chi. The gay and lesbian couple must learn to “breath in” the lunar and solar energy.
Breathing in lunar and solar vril requires preforming RL nude on your back, with your skin, body, and genitalia exposed to the moon or sun. At night for the boys, around noon for the girls. It doesn’t matter what phase the moon is in because the whole moon is still there in space. Learning to breath with your skin takes a little practice and visualization at first. Its easy to start with your fingers. With your mind focused on your finger tips inhale deep, and as you do so visualize your fingers also sucking in air through its tips. After a few tries, you will begin to actually feel a cool sensation at your finger tips.
This same process is done with breathing lunar and solar vril, except instead of breathing with your fingers, you are breathing with your body and genitals, and instead of air, you are breathing down vril which will either feel cool green-blue (lunar vril) or warm orange-yellow (solar vril). Most of the vril should be breathed into your body via the genitals. When it enters the body it is mixed with leviathan (your own vril) and is circulated in the usual mono cultivation manner. An hour is a good session. When the RL session is finished, this already mixed alchemical mercury is not stored in leviathan’s knot. It is stored in the Crucible instead. The Crucible is located roughly two inches below the belly button, and two inches inside. You will know where yours is. Pack all of the mercury inside the apple sized Crucible (we call it “the Pot”) and save it there for later dual cultivation. It will feel warm when it is concentrated in the Pot.
The High Priest:
Your High Priest is your living connection between the causal and acausal. Between mortal existence, and what is beyond. Step five of the Rite of Returning concerns establishing a strong connection and life long relationship with your “High Priest” (HP). This process is described in Chapter 11 of Opus Vrilis. The process of tuning your mind out as described in Chapter 11:OV is also important for the RoR because it teaches you do go into a state called “Death Gnosis,” which will familiarize you with that state you will go into when you are dying. Your HP is very important in the RoR because at death it will come for you, and take you to Rehab.
Phasing:
Step six of the RoR involves mastery of Phasing. Phasing is taught in Chapter 29 of Opus Vrilis. Basically Phasing is the conscious act of tuning your conscious awareness out of causal reality and into some other reality. Natural Phasing is when your mind drifts deep into a day dream, when you fall asleep and dream, or when you are schizophrenic. Experiencing Phasing first feels like a day dream, but with practice it feels like a lucid dream. Beyond that Phasing feels very real.
An easy way to learn to Phase is by using a picture of a place you are attracted to, or can easily lose yourself inside; like a great work of art, or a picture of a tropical island. In the beginning you meditate on the picture, to learn to see it in detail in your mind. This involves great concentration. Then you learn to phase yourself into the mental picture, by consciously making an effort to focus so deep in the picture that your gradually lose awareness of your body and surroundings. Then you can practice Phasing into the same picture with a second person and see what happens.
This form of Phasing itself is only practice to teach you to phase your conscious awareness out of this causal realm. Later with the RoR you will need to know how to Phase something called an “Embryo” into other places. The Embryo is a Vehicle made of refined vril inside which is placed your Self or Mind.
Glamour:
Step seven involves Glamour Magick. 352 defines glamour as the art of pretending to be something very well that you and other believe. Inner Glamour is a very important part of the RoR. It is the blue print, where the next life and who you desire to Return as is created or drafted. It begins with a simple act of cutting out pictures from magazines of people or body parts you would like. Like shopping for a new body. These pictures are saved in something called a “Magick Portfolio.” Your magick portfolio is a giant diary or private journal of sorts. It is given a sigil which can be drawn on the cover, and then it may be consecrated with rituals in the Black Book of Satan. The sigil of your Portfolio ideally should be drawn in your own blood, and should be something you can visualize.
Inside this portfolio will go everything you can think of that has to do with your thoughts, feelings, dreams, desires, about your future life and person. Glamouring also deals with regular visualizations, day dreams, and phasings of you being the future person you desire to be. It doesn’t matter what time frame it takes place in. The portfolio should also contain diary entries, as if you were the future person writing about daily experience. The diary entries should begin early in age and progress in age. It is like writing a movie script of a future life you desire to experience. The content of the portfolio should be kept private. The sigil will be used for later. This sigil should be meditated on often and charged regularly.
Refining:
Step eight deals with refining the alchemical mercury into “Alchemical Gold.” The mercury must first be “cooled,’ and then “vaporized” before it becomes Gold. The Gold is used to form the body of the Embryo. Ideally refining should be done seated in a chair, or at the edge of a bed, so that the legs are at rest on the ground.
The Disciple visualizes roots growing out of his/her feet growing deep into the earth. This is called Grounding. When the roots are deep, energy is drawn from the earth upwards via the roots. This energy will travel a figure 8 circulation called the Spinning Wheel. It is first drawn up the front parts of both legs towards the perineum (the area between the genital and anus). Once at the perineum the energy is then drawn up the spine, down the front meridian, and back to the perineum where it goes down the legs from behind, across the soles of the feet, and back up. This is practiced in conjunction to RL. This is done for a while.
The Disciple will then 7 stars in the sky, shining their light onto their forehead. The disciple will then “breath in” this star light into their Pineal Gland. The Pineal Gland is located about two inches beneath the point between the eye brows. The Disciple will know where it is when the light is breathed in because the Pineal Gland will tingle or squirm. From the Pineal Gland the light will circulate the Spinning Wheel, as was done with the earth energy. The light will spin with leviathan for a while.
The Disciple will then visualize a full moon above their head. The full moons is squeezed into pearl and is brought into the crown of the head where it will move down the Spinning Wheel with the vril for a while. While this lunar pearl is circulated, the Disciple will visualize the sun above their head. this sun is also squeezed into a pearl and taken into the Spinning Wheel through the crown of the head. At first for several circulations the lunar and solar pearls are kept at opposite points so as not to touch. After about 9 circulations the lunar pearl is held in the Pot where it waits for the solar pearl. The two pearls are merged, and the body’s vril, earth, and star energy are also brought into the Pot where they are merged and squeezed together into a white luminescent pearl composed of 5 forms of energy. This pearl is caused to circulate often with the bodies vril in RL. In China, this is sometimes referred to as a Dragon Ball. The Dragon being the Vril, and the Pearl being the ball. The more the dragon and pearl circulates, the brighter the pearl will shine. The Disciple is encouraged to often add more of the other four elements to the pearl. The Light of this Pearl is the transmutes the flowing vril into “Alchemical Gold.” The Pearl is kept inside the Pot.
The Embryo:
This stage comes later in life. Time is needed to refine and build up Gold to form the Embryo. This is the ninth step of the RoR. RL is preformed with the Pearl for about an hour. The Pearl is then placed into the Pot while the Vril iis circulated. When the vril is circulated, the Disciple will visualize most of this vril compacting into the Pearl, into a ball of concentrated vril. When the Pot begins to burn your tummy the Pearl is formed with the mind into a fetus. Your mind shoud consciously form the the round pearl into the body of a fetus. Upon the forehead of the fetus the Disciple will etch the Sigil that is on their magickal portfolio.
This is where the Embryo will stay for a while. Daily the Disciple must learn to place his conscious awareness inside the head of the Embryo. This will be easy if the Disciple has learned to Phase. They conscious mind is phased inside the head of the embryo via the Sigil. After the Disciple has learned to house their mind inside their Embryo, they can then learn to Phase the entire Embryo outside the body with their conscious mind inside.
The Embryo may be used in two esoteric manners. In the green mountains of China, where adepts work to create the Embryo they add more vril to the Embryo, and work to grow it into a new grown body called a Rainbow Body. The closet thing in the west to a Rainbow Body is the concept of a “Glorified Body.” I only know of two so-called people who had immortal glorified bodies: Jesus, and Saint Germain. Forming the Embryo into an immortal rainbow body is very rarely accomplished.
The easier use of the Embryo is to house the Self/Mind which is then put into a developing causal fetus in a female’s womb. the Embryo becomes the developing fetus’s “spirit” which will cause the fetus to form gradually into the person the adept had designed.
Rehab:
Step ten is called Rehabilitation. This step deals with Phasing and the Disciple’s High Priest. There exists in a different “octave” of existence centers that look like hospitals where the recently dead go to get rehabilitated. The shock of not being dead when the conscious mind experienced causal death puts many minds into a deep sleep of denial. These minds are brought to Rehab Centers, where entities try to revive them, before dissipation begins.
The Disciple will in old age ask their HP to take them to Rehab Center 352 to be introduced to their “Next Life Agent.” You should carry a copy of your Magick Portfolio with you, which will be given to your Broker.
Your Broker will be the entity who will overview your portfolio and find you a family who will best manifest what you have designed. If your new life is gender specific, you may have to wait. It’s like going to see your real estate agent to shop for a new home. If you are picky, it will take your agent a while to find a home that matches your specifications. If you don’t really care, you will get a house fast. Your Agent will register and log in your Embryo for the Rehab Center, so when you die, the Rehab entities will take your Embryo and put it into the right new fetal body.
The more often you visit Rehab Center 352, the better it will be when you are dead, otherwise you won’t know where you are or what to do, and the confusion may cause your mind to abandon the Embryo you worked hard to make. Rehab Center 352 is located in a green rolly hills setting. It looks like half a hotel and half a hospital, surrounded with gardens, with a little lake. There is a sign on the front door which should say “Rehab Center 352.”
Hohes Opfer:
The final step in the RoR is the Reset Button. Like any game, the Game of Life has a Reset Button. This Reset Button in 352 is called the Hohes Opfer and is explained in Chapter 44 of Opus Vrilis. After spending a whole life Phasing, RLing, and connected with your HP, you should know that Life doesn’t end, and that death is only a causal part of the Game. You should have no problems ending your own life as Master of it. You are yourself the highest and greatest Opfer to Baphomet. To Hohes Opfer yourself is a sign that you have learned to fully Master Life – in life and death; and that you have come to a deeper understandings of its mysteries. Ending your own life reduces the chance of you going into post-causal shock which is brought on during death. This post-causal shock is dangerous because it puts the mind into a deep sleep/denial for a long time. The mind will introvert inside itself, like a snail lost in its own shell, to just “float” there, until it withers and its Life Force dissipates back into the acausal, in which case, they no longer exist. Its like teaching an introvert who has spent all his/her life inside his own head and house about social skills,and the natural sinister world outside the city. The Disciple should bypass this whole mindless process and consciously take life into their own hands – in life and in death – if they are to conquer death and live on. There is no end. There are only beginnings. – (Chapter XLVII:OV)
-WSA 352-
Further Reading: Acausal Existence.
