Joe,
it's useful for permaculture design. And for visual art -- there are applications here. Not disagreeing, just disagreeing.
Anyways. Found this because Moon synchronicity has (logically enough) been off the charts this week. As to why that Moody Blues song has followed me around, too, I'm less sure. The quote below is from
The Zelator, by Mark Hedsel. I read it, I enjoyed it, but I also think it's almost wholly a work of fiction. Fascinating one nonetheless, with quite a bit to say about the allegedly "non-fiction" real world. This is from one of many long passages where Hedsel uses his magick recording capabilities to render chapter-length verbatim transcripts of his Ascending Masters holding forth about the esoteric truths they have to offer (in other words, it's a shorter, weirder Atlas Shrugged where essays are delivered by character-catures) but it's all quite relevant:
‘And so now we must look at an esoteric truth which touches on the very edge of what is permissible. What I have to say will be greatly disturbing for many people of modern times. It will disturb, because it is generally taken for granted that clairvoyancy, mediumship and spiritualistic activity are somehow linked with Spiritual development, and consequently of benefit to mankind. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. A vast amount of our modern so-called “Spiritualist” literature pertains to channelling and clairvoyancy which is far from beneficial for the development of mankind. Indeed, not to mince words, I should tell you that it is distinctly harmful.
‘I must now make a statement which will introduce you to a concept which was, until comparatively recently, one of the deepest secrets of the esoteric Schools: In some ways, the Moon is the greatest problem of esoteric lore. The Moon is not at all what it appears to be.
‘At the end of the last century an astounding revelation was made, as a result of dissent among members of secret Schools. Information, hitherto guarded jealously by the most enclosed of the inner Orders, was made public. The secrets disclosed pertained to a far deeper level of knowledge than has hitherto been made exoteric by the Schools — even in this enlightened age.’
His trace of cynicism seemed to go by unnoticed.
‘Our purpose here is not to document how so deep an esoteric idea was made public — or even to assess whether it was wise for this idea to be brought out into the open. All this has been dealt with in the literature — and if any of you wish to follow this up, I will give you a few titles later.
‘In a nutshell, what was made public during this conflict in the Schools was the truth that our Moon is a sort of counterweight to another sphere,
which remains invisible to ordinary vision. This counterweighted sphere is called in esoteric circles the Eighth Sphere.
‘We must be careful with these words, for, in spite of what I have just said, this region is not itself a sphere, nor is it a moon. Even to locate it behind the physical Moon is not correct, for in the Spiritual realm spaces and distances are different. The truth is that this Eighth Sphere does not pertain to anything we are familiar with on the physical plane, yet we must use words from our own vocabularies whenever we wish to denote its existence. Were we to use a word which fits most appropriately this
Sphere, then we should really call it a vacuum. Certainly, vacuum is a more appropriate term than sphere, for the Eighth Sphere sucks things into its own shadowy existence.
‘This Sphere is lower in the scale of being than the Seventh Sphere (which is the Earth). It acts as a sort of demonic conduit to suck into its maws certain degenerate Spiritual forms on the Earth. It is a shadow Sphere, controlled by shadow beings. However, the fact that they are shadow beings should not lead us to demote or underestimate their capabilities and intelligence. In many respects they are more intelligent than Man, for they are not limited by the power of love, as is Mankind.
‘The operation of this Eighth Sphere is complex. Its denizens — those shadowy beings for whom it is home — wish to people their Sphere with humanity, or (more accurately) with human souls. Towards this end, it has erected what we might call terminals on the Earth: these terminals are soul-conduits, which will suck into the lower Sphere a certain form of materialized Spiritual energy that is engendered on the Earth plane. The most usual circumstances where this materialization or engendering takes place is in seances, and in other localities wherein human beings attempt to meddle — against the cosmic law — with the lower Etheric planes.’
I wince at talk of "spheres and planes," too. Then again, I am precisely the kind of profane soul who necessitated all this esoteric coding in the first place, right? Right. At the same time, I am completely open to the fact there's an entire spectrum of life that's present right in front of us but totally invisible -- humans perceive such a vanishingly small portion of the spectrum I have no doubt there's overlapping ecosystems running all over the place, against us and through us, all the time.
Personifying these ecosystems and their agents, though, I'm a lot more dubious about. I'm willing to admit I'm an evil person for eating meat. But I have no special, morbid, all-consuming interest in cows, they're just a fucking burger. To the poor bastards who process their flesh unto patty format, they're just a paycheck. When I read Ascending Masters talking about these evil and dark energies, all I can think is that they're just hungry.
Just like the billions of bacteria coursing through every inch of our bodies right now.
Or diabolical.
