20/10/10

12:39 PM

Hi, Guys! How are we doing? 

Here we go! There is an Ophiel vignette called/named, Prometheus & Epimetheus: What they ‘Mean’ to you.  

I have read that Prometheus (Also Loki in the Norse Myths!) was/is, a kind of Demiurge God/Symbol of, action/doing, in the sense of Creation/Creating/Making. What I would like to try here, is to bring to your aware-ness, awake-ness, is, who are the Parents and Siblings of Prometheus/Epimetheus, simply because they, the actions/doings/movements of the ‘Creative Force’ as Symbols, going from one Plane to another, is going on inside of you (Inside your Cosmic Egg/Oval/Aura) 24/7 at your Emotional/Imaginative level, whether you like it or not! Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas and Menoetius are the children of the Titans, Iapetus and Themis. 

The name of Prometheus father is, Iapetus, and this name means, ‘The Piercer’. Is that not wonderful? Before you can have, a Forethought YOU MUST, ‘PIERCE’ (Enter, Penetrate, Project?) AHEAD! So, Prometheus = Forethought, father is called/named, Iapetus = The Piercer! What you/we, Pierce into, is of course, YOUR FUTURE!? THE UNKNOWN, THE UNSEEN, THE DARKNESS = HADES?   

The name of Prometheus mother is, Themis, and her name means, ‘That Which Is Put In Its Place’ (In a ‘place’ MADE FOR IT!? In its, PROPER PLACE [Where is that ‘proper place’ then? YOUR FUTURE?? YOUR PRESENT?? OR YOUR PAST??]) 

The name of one of Prometheus brothers is, Atlas, whose name means, ‘He Who Dares or He Who Suffers?’ Another interpretation of Atlas’s name is, ‘Hard, Enduring!’ Atlas is our/your Consciousness? (Oh, yes he is!!?)  YOUR, CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE OUTER/INNER MALKUTH EARTH/NORTH QUARTER/HADES + OUTER/OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL WORLD!! IS!! ‘ATLAS’ (One ‘carries??????!’ the OTHER??)  

The name of another brother of Prometheus is, Menoetius whose name means, Ruined Strength, Zeus struck him with his Lightning (Emotion) and then, banished him to Tartarus (The Pit = Outer, Outer Physically Physical World) It is ‘here’ in/on the Outer, outer physically physical world that we are/have ‘ruined strength’ when we want/desire something/anything. 

The name of Prometheus brother is, Epimetheus, whose name means, Afterthought. In the Greek tradition the sense of, Epimetheus was, ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’ or, ‘looking backwards while going/moving forwards unawares, unawake, unconscious?’ (The modern version is, ‘Oh! I shouldn’t have done that!’)  

BOTH PROMETHEUS AND EPIMETHEUS WERE/ARE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE HUMAN RACE? Well, SO TO ALSO, IS/ARE/WERE THEIR OTHER TWO BROTHERS. ATLAS AND MENOETIUS (Atlas = Who Dares/Who Suffers and Menoetius = Ruined Strength!?!) NOT JUST PROMETHEUS & EPIMETHEUS REPRESENT MANKIND! BUT ALL FOUR BROTHERS DO!!?! (As well as their ‘parents!') 
Here is another way that these things is/are shown, it is from Ophiel’s book, The Art & Practice of the Occult, page 25, in the e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group.

“As I outlined to you before much of these basic Occult or metaphysical Truths were embodied in ancient religions in the form of myths and stories about the Gods and their doings. This idea, now being, presented, of the study of the Elemental Forces, plus the information about Planes rules and/or influenced by them in turn is shown in the myths of the ancient Greek religion of the characteristics of three Gods – Pluto- Poseidon – and Zeus.
Pluto was the God of, and ruled, the Underworld (Earth – this is the underworld!!) Poseidon was the God of, and ruled, the ocean (water-of the Etheric Plane!!) (None of these planes were physical) Zeus was the God of, and ruled, the Skies (Air – the mental Plane)
Now you know, and/or should be beginning to suspect, that there is something more behind these ideas than meets the casual Glance. YOU KNOW that the Underworld Earth, the Ocean Water, and the Skies Air are, and are not, ACTUAL Earth, Water, Air.
Hence it follows that they must refer to an “Inner” Earth, Water, and Air. And so we come back to the Planes and the Planes, by their characteristics, show they are closely related to the Elemental Forces and, in fact, might even be said to be both Plane and Force IN ONE. 
See how this idea appeals to you, and where does it lead you? Do some meditation yourself. Another clue-tip off here to indicate some information worthy of examination is that the Three Gods referred to ARE BROTHERS suggesting, metaphysically, that the three are really ONE, merely changing forms in changing from one plane to another, - which idea is completely in accord with the fact that the Elemental Forces change from one into the other both “up” and “down”.
The Elemental Force WATER has begun to enter the sphere of the Elemental Force of Earth and it is beginning to have a sort of “form”. Not much of a “Form” to be sure but enough to be noticeable the same as Physical Water has a tenuous form and which (potential) form can be poured into moulds and thus take the form of the/any mould (form). 
Remember that if you can’t always figure out the possible meaning and understanding of an Elemental Force then compare the Elemental Force with its Physical Counterpart and this comparison will give you some ideas as to how and what the Inner Plane Elemental Force is and some idea of what it does or how it functions on the Inner Planes, but do remember all these Elemental Forces are linked together and each is a part of a series group, each is a part of each other at all times through the transition, either up or down. Also you can recall, at this point/time, that all these Elemental Forces are present in Man, and, in fact, is MAN (quite a profound thought here, give it some meditation).” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

Read these parts again from the above quote: 

1.	YOU KNOW that the Underworld Earth, the Ocean Water, and the Skies Air are, and are not, ACTUAL Earth, Water, Air. Hence it follows that they must refer to an “Inner” Earth, Water, and Air. 
2.	Another clue-tip off here to indicate some information worthy of examination is that the Three Gods referred to ARE BROTHERS suggesting, metaphysically, that the three are really ONE, merely changing forms in changing from one plane to another, - which idea is completely in accord with the fact that the Elemental Forces change from one into the other both “up” and “down”.
3.	Also you can recall, at this point/time, that all these Elemental Forces are present in Man, and, in fact, is MAN (quite a profound thought here, give it some meditation).

Number 3 in the above is your Cosmic Egg Exercise.
 
Ophiel writes that none of the, Underworld = Earth, Ocean = Water and Skies = Air are actual Outer, Outer Physically Physical Earth, Water and Air, and so it is with Prometheus and his brothers, mother and father! THEY ARE NOT PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL OUTER, OUTER EARTH ‘REAL!’ PERSONS!! They are, Inner Plane Workings/Operations done by/with your Consciousness/Aware-ness/Awake-ness, and depending on your Sub-Conscious understanding, will be the ‘measure’ of your, Success/Failure, in life! 

There is a ‘Pit’ in the Underworld/Hades, (Hades = Elemental Plane of the Element of Earth) and this ‘Pit’ IS LOWER STILL!?! Than the ‘Underworld/Hades’ itself: The Underworld was/is the ‘lowest’ Plane; the Pit = Tartarus, was even ‘Lower?’ than this! When the Greeks said that some God/Force was ‘Banished’ from Heaven (Inner Planes) or ‘Punished’ and thrown into the ‘Pit’ they were saying that the God/Force was ‘Here?’ in/on the, OUTER, OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL PLANE!? That is, they were, In/On the, OTHER SIDE? OTHER-HALF!? LOWER PART? OUTER PART!? THEY WERE PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL!?! So, we?! Physically Physical Us! (Consciousness) Are ‘here’ in the ‘Pit’ called/named, Tartarus = Physically Physical Plane, and we must ‘escape?’ ‘return?’ ‘climb out?’ of this ‘PIT!?’ One of the interesting things about this Tartarus is that it is, Surrounded, Encompassed, by/with THREE LAYERS OF NIGHT! (The 3 layers are the other three planes, Air, Fire and Water) Tartarus is a, ‘Dark’ ‘Gloomy’ ‘Murky’ place? Where things are ‘HIDDEN!!?’ 

Now! I ask you? As one occultist to another! If you were in such a ‘dark’ ‘gloomy’ ‘murky’ place/plane as Tartarus and you wanted to, Get Out? Escape?  WOULDN’T YOU WANT, DESIRE, WISH, TO HAVE? A LIGHT!??? (Elemental Fire = Light = Sight = Emotions.) WOULDN’T YOU, WANT, DESIRE, WISH, TO HAVE A WAY!???! OF PENETRATING!?! PIERCING!?! THE/THIS ‘GLOOM?’ It is Prometheus = Forethought, AS ‘EMOTIONS/IMAGINATIONS’ that ‘GOES AHEAD!?’ TO ‘LIGHT THE WAY!?’ BUT IT IS PROMETHEUS FATHER, ‘IAPETUS = The PIERCER = The ENTERER = PROJECTOR (OF CONSCIOUSNESS!!?) THAT IS AHEAD!? BEFORE!?! HIS SON!?! (The Father is the ‘Thinker = The Piercer = Consciousness’ The Son is the ‘Thought = Emotions/Imaginations’) AND IT IS PROMETHEUS MOTHER, ‘THEMIS = RIGHT ORDER = FIT PLACE = ZEUS CONSORT = WATER OF FIRE = Emotions/Imaginations, WHO SHOW’S HER SON PROMETHEUS WHERE TO GO, IF!?! HE IS ‘CORRECT/RIGHT’ See/Read Ophiel’s book, The Art & Practice of Clairvoyance, e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group. Here is what Ophiel writes on page 7 of this book:

“In the original Hebrew Qabalah the different Sephiroth, to which I gave Greek God names, WERE GIVEN DIFFERENT (SAME) GOD NAMES, OF THE SAME GOD, ACCORDING TO THE WAY HE WAS FUNCTIONING IN THE SEPHIROTH POSITION AT THAT TIME. Thus it is that the same one God only functions in a different position – place – so let no multiplicity idea ever come up. You can treat these “Gods” as entities. You can “talk” to them. You can give them arguments in your favour. You can, and should, get to know them very well. (Don’t go and overdo it now.) The object of these actions is to accustom your mind to accepting contact with these Forces, and working with them, and getting results. If you have any ideas of your own that will work better than mine then use your ideas in place of mine and go to it. There are a number of different ideas introduced here, or maybe old ideas in other forms, but I have tried to keep them all down to Earth (Elemental Earth.) 
I have not done a great deal of outside research in the classic circles or in psychology as I didn’t want to clutter up the simple basic Qabalah concepts with those things. The basics of both are here however, and they do function, which is all you should need to move along nicely.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

Then on pages 12/13 of this same book, we read this: 

“To again digress a moment: I have a definite feeling that if the knowledge of these, largely unknown, inner facilities were more generally studied – all the nonsense cleared away about the Occult – a good percentage of the people would develop a clairvoyance sense and a dependence on this clairvoyance sense to a surprising degree. In fact, although I cannot prove it positively, I have a strong impression that any extremely successful person uses much more clairvoyance than he himself is aware of. Somewhat analogous to our physical sense of Smell which we use and do not realize. I am told that if a person’s nose is blocked off, a person can eat an onion and not taste it. I haven’t tried it myself, but I feel that if this is true, it is also true, in some way, of clairvoyance. I have had a chance to study such a person, a successful man, for too short a time. But I noticed in several instances that when he made a decision based on the resolving of a number of factors into a single conclusion and acting thereon, THIS CONCLUSION, FOLLOWED BY THE ACTION, BOTH SUCCESSFUL, COULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN A CLAIRVOYANT PERCEPTION OF A MASS OF DIFFERENT FACTORS AND THEIR RESOLUTION INTO A SINGLE INSPIRED CLAIRVOYANT CONCLUSION – OR SO IT SEEMED TO ME. I will want to do more work on this in the future, but in the meantime, do some investigating yourself. Study all the successful people you can and try to see how many of their decisions are based on apparently nothing related to a complex of facts on hand – THEN ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN THEIR DECISION. If they cannot clearly state how they arrived at their plan of action, or if they hesitate in explaining and have to think it over, then the chances are it was a spontaneous clairvoyant use/decision, the possibilities of which we all have to some degree. Now comes a note and a word of caution, – while it is true that daily available use of clairvoyance can be a great help in your daily life, clairvoyance, per se, is not ALL POWERFUL. It will not make you a giant power all at once. You still need all the Earth Skills that you can get and master the use of. Skill in the use of clairvoyance and Earth Skills must be used together. To repeat – Clairvoyance Skills and Physical Skills should SUPPLEMENT EACH OTHER. They do not SUPPLANT EACH OTHER. You will have to learn to develop clairvoyance and you should develop all the Physical Skills you can, and then learn to WORK THEM BOTH IN CONNECTION WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH YOU, AND ALL YOUR OTHER ASSETS, THAT YOU MAY NOW POSSESS.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

In the above quote of pages 12/13, is our little family group of, Iapetus, Themis, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius and Atlas.  Here it is again; “THIS CONCLUSION, FOLLOWED BY THE ACTION, BOTH SUCCESSFUL, COULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN A CLAIRVOYANT PERCEPTION OF A MASS OF DIFFERENT FACTORS AND THEIR RESOLUTION INTO A SINGLE INSPIRED CLAIRVOYANT CONCLUSION – OR SO IT SEEMED TO ME.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

Rising up out of the Psychological Darkness, or if you prefer, The Three Layers of Night, (Air, Fire & Water) that Surrounds Hades/Tartarus, comes the ‘LIGHT’ (Prometheus = Forethought = baring/bringing ‘FIRE’ = Light = Emotions stolen from Zeus!) THAT WAS BROUGHT FROM THE FATHER? (Iapetus = The Piercer = The Enterer = The Projector = YOU = CONSCIOUSNESS!) 
And because this ‘LIGHT’ was, IN ITS PROPER PLACE! IN THE RIGHT PLACE! IN THE PLACE MADE FOR IT? (Themis = Right Order) you are then able to, GO FORWARDS!? PROGRESS!?! ESCAPE?? CLIMB OUT? OF THE, PARTICULAR ‘PIT’ (Tartarus) IN WHICH YOU FIND YOURSELF! THUS, YOU ARE/HAVE, WHAT IS CALLED/NAMED, CLAIRVOYANT OR PSYCHIC ABILITIES!?

Ophiel says that he believed that everyone is/has or is born with the ability to be, Clairvoyant. That this Clairvoyance, is one of our ‘innate abilities’ which lies ‘dormant’ ‘hidden’ ‘unseen’ ‘undiscovered’ ‘not found’ by the vast majority of persons/people. Well, these people/persons whether they/you like it or not, ARE MENOETIUS = RUINED STRENGTH!! Whereas, the other brother, Atlas, is the opposite?!

 ATLAS, is the, One Who Dares; the, One Who Suffers? Another interpretation of Atlas’s name is, Hard, Enduring! Atlas is our/your Consciousness? (Oh, yes he is!!?)  YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE OUTER/INNER MALKUTH EARTH/NORTH QUARTER/HADES AND THE, OUTER/OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL WORLD!! You will/shall ‘find’ ‘discover’ Atlas in/on the North Quarter of the Elemental Plane of the Element of Earth! It is our/your Consciousness (Atlas) that Endures; that is Hard; that Dares; that Suffers!? So! Here I am, sitting in my little Greek Temple, minding my own business, (Much like today?) and someone comes up to me and says/asks, Teach me how to Creatively Visualise! Show me how to, Get Material Things! Well, well, well!? Some things just never, ever change! So I give them, (her or him = them) the story/myth/family of Iapetus, Themis, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius and Atlas. 

1.	Iapetus = The Piercer, The Penetrator, The Projector = The Enterer = Akasha.
2.	Themis = Right Order, Proper Working, Fit to Be/Become = Air = Movement.
3.	Prometheus = Forethought = Emotion/Imagination = Fire = Expansion.
4.	Epimetheus = Afterthought = Visualisation/Symbol = Water = Contraction.
5.	Atlas = Earth, Endure, Hard, Solid, Inert = Malkuth Earth = Conscious-ness.
6.	Menoetius = Ruined/Wasted Strength = Physical Earth = Using. 

Did you/Do you ‘know’ that, YOU CANNOT HAVE A ‘FORETHOUGHT’ WITHOUT ‘PIERCING’ ‘PENETRATING’ OR ‘PROJECTING?’ SO THE ‘FATHER’ OF ‘FORETHOUGHT’ IS/WAS/WOULD BE, ‘IAPETUS’ (The Piercer, The Enterer!)  

If!? This ‘forethought’ was/is ‘CORRECT’ ‘RIGHT’ ‘PROPER’ ‘FITTING’ ‘APT’ etc, etc, then it would be, IN RIGHT ORDER, PROPER WORKING, FIT TO BE/BECOME, and FIT FOR BIRTH!! = THEMIS = MOTHER =WIFE OF ZEUS = WATER of FIRE = COLLECTED/GATHERED/ACCUMULATED EMOTIONS/IMAGINATIONS (See/Read Ophiel’s Second book, The Art & Practice of Getting Material Things Through Creative Visualisation, e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group. Read about Ophiel’s presentation of, The Sphere of Availability = Themis!?) On page 49 of Ophiel’s other book, The Art & Practice of Clairvoyance, we read this:  

“The preceding ideas – theories give rise to many possible explanations of how metaphysics and miracles and such like might have worked in our past history. Also, this gives some clue as to how – why Christian Science and Unity health “treatments” could “work” and, indeed, should work well as well as “miracles” at shrines and pilgrimages, etc. The person “praying” might conceivably “touch” the other, opposite one-half world thing and bring a “healing” about – or completeness, which would be the same as a healing. 
The above half-world idea could explain even the ordinary processes of life where one keeps up a steady desire pressure for a certain object or condition and certainly the object or condition desired is not “here” or we would not desire it. Also, it is surely over there, or the “other half” is. Re-examine the material in my second book, THE ART AND PRACTICE OF GETTING MATERIAL THINGS THROUGH CREATIVE VISUALIZATION, with this new idea in mind. I am writing this book in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. 
The whole city and the area all the way to the Pacific bear’s the worked mark of a remarkable man – a giant, the railroad builder, Mr. James Jerome Hill. This man almost single-handedly built a great railway called the Great Northern Railroad, and turned the Northwest into an inland Empire.
Long before I came here I heard the following story about Mr. Hill. It was said that when he decided to build a railroad, or an addition to a railroad, he would sit down quietly and BUILD THE WHOLE RAILROAD IN HIS IMAGINATION! AND WHEN HE HEARD THE TRAIN WHISTLES BLOWING AND THE TRAIN BELLS RINGING, HE WOULD THEN START TO ACTUALLY BUILD THE RAILROAD!!! You can and should use the same process in your life, within reason, although you will probably not build railroads! But practice using this method in even the smallest matters until it is a habit in your life and a good one.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

The last paragraph in the above quote is Atlas! HE WHO DARES OR HE WHO SUFFERS!?

Please remember/recall that none/nothing of the above story/family/myth is OUTWARDLY PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL!! THE ABOVE IS/ARE PSYCHIC AND CLAIRVOYANT PRESENTATIONS BY THE ANCIENT GREEKS TO SHOW/REVEAL HOW THE/THESE YOUR/THEIR ‘INNER PSYCHIC/CLAIRVOYANT’ ABILITIES WORKED, OPERATED AND COULD BE ‘LEARNED’ ‘MASTERED’ ‘USED’ BY YOU/ME! BOTH THEN, AND NOW! AS NOTHING HAS ‘CHANGED’ WE ARE STILL THE SAME ‘SPECIES!!’ SPACE & TIME NOTWITHSTANDING NOR OUR, PASSAGE?! THROUGH IT!

Many students/persons read Ophiel’s vignette, Prometheus and Epimetheus: What they mean to You: and then get annoyed/irritated because they cannot seemingly get it to ‘work?’ for them! Well, if your ‘Forethought’ has no, Father and Mother, it will shall not be ‘Born!?’ (Even ‘Forethoughts’ must have a Father/Mother = Cause!!) 

Read the vignettes, Prometheus and Epimetheus, The Thread and Showing God What To Do! along with this, Flying Roll, and see if you can ‘detect/find’ Prometheus his Father and Mother, along with his three Brothers and try to ‘work’ all of them Psychically and/or Clairvoyantly to your ‘advantage.’ USE! Your Cosmic Egg Exercise to, ‘Locate?’ ‘Place?’ ‘Put?’ this Family in/on a ‘Specific Plane’  

Wishing you well, as ever, 

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