By Stephen E Flowers
Examines the left-hand direction and divulges the masters of the tradition
• Explores the practices and ideology of many left-hand course teams, together with the Cult of Set, the Hell-Fire membership, and heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects
• Investigates many notorious occult personalities, together with Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, and Anton LaVey
• Explains the real distinction among the right-hand direction and the left-hand path--union with and dependence on God as opposed to person freedom and self-empowerment
From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff’s Fourth manner, the left-hand course has been associated with many practices, cults, and members around the a while. Stephen flora, Ph.D., examines the equipment, teachings, and ancient function of the left-hand course, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its underlying impression in present international affairs, and divulges which philosophers, magicians, and occult figures all through historical past can really be known as “Lords of the Left-Hand Path.”
Flowers explains that whereas the right-hand direction seeks union with and hence dependence on God, the left-hand direction seeks a “higher legislations” according to wisdom and tool. it's the manner of self-empowerment and actual freedom. starting with historic Hindu and Buddhist sects and relocating Westward, he examines many alleged left-hand direction teams, together with the Cult of Set, the Yezidi satan Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire membership, the Bolsheviks, the occult Nazis, and several other heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects. Following a delicately crafted definition of a real adherent of the left-hand direction in response to major principles--self-deification and problem to the conventions of “good” and “evil”--the writer analyzes many recognized and notorious personalities, together with H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino, and divulges which occult masters have been Lords of the Left-Hand Path.
Flowers indicates that the left-hand direction isn't really inherently evil yet a part of our background and our deep-seated wish to be loose, self reliant, and accountable for our destinies.
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It is timeless, eternal, and universal. Energetically, the body becomes highly energized and individuals generally fall back with arms and legs open, fully exposing the body in a posture of universal embrace. Bodies also tend to gyrate along the axis of the central column of energy along the torso, with waves of ecstatic energy radiating out from the heart and moving up and down the spine with arms and legs moving in fluid, symmetrical gestures. In essence, in these moments, the individual is effectively making love with him or herself in universal energetic form, the purest expression of universal love, acceptance, and identity.
But it doesn’t really matter. , language is used to communicate and share information between individuals, whether that be thinking thoughts to yourself in your head or speaking or writing them for others to receive. Direct and immediate being is not involved with language. We therefore will undoubtedly encounter a paradox with any linguistic label of nondual reality. The Tao that can be spoken is not the Eternal Tao, after all, and it is best not to get stuck on this matter, for that, in-and-of-itself, is a fruitless dualistic game that won’t bring anyone any closer to the experience and realization itself.
Reality is energy. There is nothing in reality that is not a form of energy. It is what is. This also indicates that there is not some divide between “pure energy” and the “physical” as a dualistic separation, for the physical is the energetic. Many mystical traditions distinguish between what they refer to as “gross” physicality and “subtle” energy, claiming that these are ultimately distinct, though interrelated, levels of reality. The Entheological Paradigm makes no such distinction. The physical is the matrix in which all energetic transformations take place.