If the Moon Previously had Life (47)

Introduction

If we were to accept the esoteric point of view that the moon existed before the Earth and had life in abundance just as the Earth has now, then studying the surface of the Moon should reveal areas of where there were oceans, seas, rivers, mountain ranges, volcanoes and plains. Because these features are essential to supporting life, we would not have life on Earth as we know it now without those features.

Presently, the surface of the moon has been studied well and documented just as well. So a study to find the remnants of such features should be relatively easy to carry out.

Moon Surface

When one studies the Moon’s surface there are certainly many ‘mare’, that is great depressions or basins on the surface of the moon, some of which could serve as plains and others as seas or oceans.

Conclusion

There are also many old volcanoes, that support this statement of esotericism, that in a previous cosmic day or Mahamanvantara the moon had life in abundance just as the Earth does now.

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The Two Ways to Study the Moon (46)

Introduction

There are really two ways to study the moon. One is to study the moon from the cosmic perspective and the other way is to study the moon from within the human being.

Cosmic Study

The cosmic study of the moon is to study the moon from an astronomical perspective, which is to see the moon as a celestial body

From within the Human Being

The study of the moon from the viewpoint of the human being follows the axiom that the human being (a microcosms) is a universe in miniature. Meaning if there is a moon outside of us there is also a moon within us.

Therefore the study of the moon from the perspective of the human being is a psychological and esoteric study, which is to essentially see the lunar principles and characteristics working in our psychology and in our inner constitution.

Lunar and Solar Principles

The main two principles in the cosmos and in the human being are the lunar and solar principles. For the Earth the two most important celestial bodies and principles are the sun and the moon. As above so below, so as it is for the Earth so it is for the human being.

Middle Ground – Combination of the Two Studies

There is also a middle ground between the two studies, which is studying how human beings have studied the moon and are gaining knowledge of the moon. There is also the study of the moon in how it takes part in our culture. And now to finish, there is also the study of the moon's influence on the human being.

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Earth’s Two Moons in Kabbalah (45)

Introduction

To my surprise, Kabbalah a system of ancient knowledge - essentially the mystical or esoteric side of Judaism contains knowledge of the Earth having two moons. Kabbalah calls them Nahemah and Lilith or the white and black moon, with Nahemah being the “White Moon” or the moon that we see nearly every night and, Lilith being the “Black Moon” that which we don’t see.

Two Spheres of Human Infra-sexuality

An interesting point here is that the two spheres of human infrasexuality are called in Gnostic circles, Nahemah and Lilith. In some way this makes sense as the Moon has much in esotericism to do with conception and the birth and therefore sex, and as the lunar influence is mechanical and materialistic the Moon governs mechanical sexuality which when driven by the sense and matter tends or gravitates to the inferior scale.

Lilith or Black Moon

Here is an excerpt from the Gnostic Teachings website about the “Black Moon”.

“The moon that shines at night is called Nahemah in Kabbalah, and the other moon is Lilith. The Earth has two moons: Lilith, which is called the "Black Moon," is a little bit further from Earth than Nahemah or the "White Moon." Lilith is very small, about 18 kilometers in diameter; this is why when you see it through a telescope it looks like a small lentil beyond the big moon. Usually astronomers think it is just an asteroid that is passing through, but it is actually the moon Lilith. Kabbalistically we state that Lilith is a fallen eighth infra-sphere. The "eighth sphere" refers to the Tree of Life. What is the ninth sphere? It is Yesod, which is related to the Moon.”

Nahemah or White Moon

Here is an excerpt from the Gnostic Teachings website that relates the White Moon to the eighth and ninth spheres of the tree of life.

“But we also explained that Hod is related to the Moon – not only to the White Moon, but also to the Black Moon Lilith, because it is a fallen eighth sphere, and the eighth sphere is Hod.”

I am going to research this topic more as to how and why the Moon is related to Hod, and I hope to post these findings.

Why in Kabbalah the Earth has to have Two Moons

Here is an excerpt from the Gnostic Teachings web site that explains that basically the two fragments the black and white moons are the parents of the Earth. That essentially the soul of the white and black Moon has been transferred to the Earth and by cause and effect, with the effect being the Earth we have the cause being the two fragments the white and black moons. Essentially the white Moon is the Mother of the Earth and the Father of the Earth is the Sun.

“So, when we examine our physical bodies we say: My physicality was made thanks to the inheritance that was placed in the sperm of my father within the ovum of the womb of my mother; so I also have the inheritance of my mother within my physical body. In other words, my father and my mother are fragments of my physical life. They are not fragments that came from my physical body; quite the opposite, those fragments are the origin of this fragment which is my physical body, my own humanity. So if I go into my past in order to investigate the genes or DNA of my physical body, then I see that my mother and father are the cause of it. That is called karma, cause and effect. Thus, because of karma I have this body and you have the body that you have. Can you understand this? It is not difficult to comprehend that, right?

As below, so above; as above, so below. The planet Earth is also the outcome of fragments from other cosmic days. The Moon is the mother of the Earth. Some personalities, who could not understand the message in the internal planes, mistakenly supposed that the Moon is a fragment of the Earth, which is absolutely wrong. It is like saying that my mother is the outcome of my body; no, my body is the outcome of my mother. So when talking about those fragments, Gurdjieff, in his "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson," states that the Earth has two fragments in space, which are part of it – yes, they are part of it, but not in the way that he explains it. Quite the opposite, the Earth is the outcome of those fragments, because those fragments or moons belong to previous cosmic days.”

Conclusion

So Kabbalah recognises that the Earth has two Moons and they together are the cause for the Earth. It seems that according to the Law of Cause and Effect we have had to have had a cause, if the effect is our Earth. Kabbalah relates that cause to the Sun and to the Earth’s two moons. As yet though it is not so clear that there had to be two moons, maybe by duality, even the other planets have more than one moon.

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Origin of the Moon According to Esotericism Post 1 (44)

Introduction

This is a short post aiming at presenting a view on the origin of the Moon from esotericism. I hope to follow this post up with several more detailed posts.

Currently Science

The current mostly accepted scientific view is that the Moon is a fragment of the Earth, that came to being after a very large object collided with the still forming Earth. Esotericism however sees the origin of the Moon completely differently.

Esoteric View

The common esoteric view is that the Moon predates the Earth. In that the Moon was there before the Earth came to be, and that the Moon has been left over from a previous wave of creation or Cosmic Day (Mahamanvantara) as it is known in esotericism.

Gurdjieff spoke about the origin of the Moon as being the same as the currently accepted scientific view. However Samael Aun Weor and H.P.Blavatsky say that the origin of the Moon is to be found in a previous cosmic day.

 

Esotericism states that the Moon is simply a shell or a corpse that is devoid of life and is the mother of the Earth. That is the soul or the Moon was given over or transferred from the previous Cosmic day into this cosmic day to form the Earth.

As we have talked about there being two moons, esotericism states that these two moons have given rise to the Earth. So the souls of both of these two moons are now in the Earth.

Conclusion

This post really deserves following up with more explanations of how the Earth came to be from the two moons and what that means for us here and now. Kabbalah has much to say about this. Anyhow for this to be true Science one day has to come to the same conclusion. The current scientific theory or view has not been proven without a doubt so this version has its validity.

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Esoteric Qualities of the Moon (43)

Introduction

This post presents an esoteric view of some of the Moon’s qualities. Please note, esoteric means, that which is not readily seen, and that is goes way beyond the surface. What is Esoteric is certainly not the conventional or common scientific view. However, some of the conventional and scientific views may coincide or be included in the esoteric view.

The following excerpt describes the mechanical and materialistic quality of the Moon on our psyche and on our nature and how this effect can be overcome. This excerpt warns us that the new moon phase is not very good to start new activities.

Excerpt by V.M Samael Aun Weor

“There is a grave problem: the Moon tends towards materialism, all terrestrial mechanicity is controlled by the Moon. All life on Earth, the whole terrestrial mechanism is controlled by the Moon. The whole of that mechanical life which we live is of a lunar type.

The Moon, like the pendular weight of a huge clock, makes the terrestrial mechanism move. The growth of plants, animals, the ovulation of woman, the ebb and flow of the seas, the high and low tides etc., depend upon the Moon. Due to this fact, that life is so mechanical, if one really does want to triumph, one must take advantage of the waxing Moon in one’s activities; and also the full Moon. If the waning Moon is used, we fail.

The new Moon is very difficult, it has no force. If one wants to succeed in some activity or in business dealings one inevitably has to take advantage of the waxing Moon and the full Moon. Never begin a transaction with the waning or new Moon.

In order to control lunar materialism one must appeal to the perfumes of the rose and violet plants. They must be used in order to control materialism because the Moon exercises a materialistic influence upon the human mind. It is to our misfortune that the subjective elements which we have within are controlled by the Moon.”

Conclusion

We can use the perfume of the rose and the violet plants to help us not be too influenced by the materialism of the Moon especially in New and the Full Moon phases. A picture of a violet plant is shown below.

This is because when these phases are active we are either bored or very active and in both states we are prone to delve into materialism, such as consumerism, lust, greed, in general any activity that is external to us.

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Earth has Two Moons According to Esotericism and Science (42)

Introduction

It seems rather strange this idea that the Earth has two moons. I was quite surprised when I first came across it in an esoteric work written by Samael Aun Woer, where he says that the Earth has two moons, that is the one that we know well and see part of almost every night, and one that we don’t know well and do not see (mainly because it is so small).

In esotericism this very much smaller and unknown moon is called the ‘black moon’ or Lilith.

What I have done with this post is provide small excerpts from some texts written by Samael Aun Weor and Gurdjieff talking that make mention of the existence of the Earth’s second Moon.

Excerpts by Samael Aun Weor

“On this planet in which we live, the lunar influence is double, because the Earth has two moons. Through the telescopes, the second moon appears black and is the size of a lentil. Occultists have named the black moon Lilith. This second lunar satellite is a kind of eighth submerged sphere. It is a very malignant world.

On Earth, the sinister vibrations that come from the black moon originate many monstrosities, abominations, frightful crimes filled with repugnant savagery, inconceivable lust, homosexuality on a great scale, masturbation, pederasty, provoked abortions, etc.

Among the most abominable products of Lilith, it is opportune to cite the case of Count Dracula in Russia. This movie personage truly existed, and H. P. Blavatsky comments about him in one of her books.”

Excerpts by Gurdjieff

“Of these two fragments, the larger was named ‘Loonderperzo’ and the smaller ‘Anulios’; and the ordinary three-brained beings who afterwards arose and were formed on this planet also at first called them by these names; but the beings of later times called them differently at different periods, and in most recent times the larger fragment has come to be called Moon, but the name of the smaller has been gradually forgotten.

As for the beings there now, not only have they no name at all for this smaller fragment, but they do not even suspect its existence.”

It is interesting to notice here that the beings of a continent on that planet called ‘Atlantis,’ which afterwards perished, still knew of this second fragment of their planet and also called it ‘Anulios,’ but the beings of the last period of the same continent, in whom the results of the consequences of the properties of that organ called ‘Kundabuffer’—about which, it now seems, I shall have to explain to you even in great detail—had begun to be crystallized and to become part of their common presences, called it also ‘Kimespai,’ the meaning of which for them was ‘Never-Allowing-One-to-Sleep-in-Peace.’”

According to Science

Science has also discovered a second much smaller moon like object orbiting around the Earth. As early as 1970 this was discovered and was named Toro. This excerpt has been taken from the New York Times in 1970, July.

“It has recently been discovered that the Earth and the moon do not make up an isolated, self-sufficient two-body system, as men have believed for centuries. Rather, they are part of a three-body system whose third member is a tiny “quasi-moon” only a mile or two in diameter. Toro, as this third body has been named, wanders around the sun five times in the time that it takes Earth to make eight circuits. When Toro comes too near earth—9.3 million miles at the closest point—Earth’s gravity tends to change Toro’s curvilinear path so that on its next passage it is further away from Earth; in turn, Earth’s gravity affects this revised path so that on its following pass it is closer to Earth.”

In 1997 another object, more like an asteroid which has been called Cruithne has been found to travel in a quasi-orbit around the Earth. This excerpt was taken from the Discover Magazine website.

“What you might not know is that the moon is not the Earth’s only natural satellite. As recently as 1997, we discovered that another body, 3753 Cruithne, is what’s called a quasi-orbital satellite of Earth. This simply means that Cruithne doesn’t loop around the Earth in a nice ellipse in the same way as the moon, or indeed the artificial satellites we loft into orbit. Instead, Cruithne scuttles around the inner solar system in what’s called a “horseshoe” orbit.”

Conclusion

What is interesting is that there is evidence traditionally, esoterically and scientifically that the Earth does have a second moon. What is more interesting though is what Samael Aun Weor says about this second Moon, in that it is very dark and emits some very strong and dark vibrations.

In the following posts I will include some texts about how the presence of a second Moon is interwoven into Kabbalah and into the esoteric history of the origin of the human being.

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