Armanen Runes
Armanen Runes
Armanen Runes
Armanen Runes -- Three Free Rune Courses, Two Free Books by Karl Hans Welz, Inventor of the Orgone Generator, Orgonite, etc.
I started my studies of Rune magic 1972 while in Berlin, Germany. I have written the Rune courses starting in 1982. These courses have striking differences to all other approaches to Rune magic that I have learned in the past. It is obvious that the Blavatskian-Theosophical pseudo-historical approach (to which most Rune Masters of the 20th century subscribed) is entirely bankrupt in many respects and totally untenable, if not ridiculous. History, biology, archaeology and other modern sciences tell an entirely different story than these ludicrous reveries of the first half of the 20th century about "Atlantis", "root races", "Hyperboreans" or the Hrbiger theories of a hollow world, which may have originated as an esoteric side-effect, perhaps "philosophical justification" of European colonialism, and to which only a few lunatics and a couple of "secret lodges" of our era, most of them with definite fascist undertones, are still subscribing. From the very beginning of my studies on, I have recognized the Runes as primary abstractions. In fact, their simplicity, and at the same time complex effects, pointed to the fact that these abstractions were of a pre-linguistic, in some situations even non-linguistic kind. This means that we can trace back this type of creative interaction with the environment to the earliest origins of humankind, even before language as we know it evolved. Approaching Runes this way, I could no longer treat Runes in the way that practically all authors of the past viewed them: namely as the Germanic substitute, alternative, or replacement, for the magical systems that are based on the Cabbala. This was the approach that has been reverberating throughout all Runic literature that I have studied, and it is so in most Runic literature still in our days. In fact, the simplicity of the Runic approach to magic and the fact that Runes were not as easily to control by some people as were the cabbalistic energies made me aware that there was a dimension to this ancient system that traditional magicians have overlooked - or of which they have not been aware at all, even if some of their practices sometimes included a few elements of this dimension, a dimension that reaches far beyond the language-based structures of the Cabbala. Having had this experience of Runes, I then decided to approach the Runes as creating and defining energies rather than created and well-defined ones. When I established this approach to Runes, which included the definition and use of the "Rune Realms" (see the Basic Rune Course, inner Rune Realm, outer Rune Realm and Rune Realm of creative energies) they naturally revealed their immense power to me and they did so instantly! In addition to that, they turned out to be relatively easy to control, since I approached them according to their nature: as energies belonging to the realms of creation, as defining energies rather than the typical cabbalistic ones that are well defined. I did not tie the Runes onto the "Procrustes bed" of cabbalistic thinking nor did I force the Runes into the mold of "definitions". Consequently I had easy access to the enormous power of the creative realms. These realms are beyond the welldefined planetary energies (or entities of the spheres in a Bardonian sense) and, in fact, you can use these creative energies as modifiers of such entities. This became very clear when I evoked Bardonian spirits and other entities inside a Runic circle. The Runes allowed the creation of energy fields (entities) with a power and flexibility that simply cannot appear when we work with the same energies without the impact of a connection to the realms of creation. This entirely new, and yet ancient, approach to Runes is the crux of my courses and the magical practice therein that you are going to study and apply. Naturally, I used the 18 Runes that Guido von List introduced. In fact, it did not take much practice to recognize their superiority over all other systems, including those of which their authors and promoters claim to be "elder". It certainly is obvious that List was onto something when he had his "revelations", without ever fully realizing just how powerful this system can be. After experiencing the creation-dimension of the Runes (above all the 18 Futhork Runes, i.e., the Armanen System), there is no way that we can speak ever again of a Rune magic besides the known cabbalistic methods or as a substitute of these methods based on Germanic religion. Quite to the contrary, the Armanen Futhork is a system of creative energies that naturally reaches far beyond the well-defined cabbalistic energies. We can use these qualitatively superior, defining and creating Runic energy fields to achieve our ultimate magical flexibility as human beings, either in conjunction with well-defined energies ("Bardonian entities, cabbalistic spirits", etc.) or independently from them. The far-reaching potential of this new method and new approach became obvious when, at some point (still while writing the lessons of the Basic Rune course under the aspect of this new approach) I evoked a Germanic god with a Rune. Before the god could manifest, the Rune asked me what god I wanted to create!
As a consequence of the life force technology that I developed (I have built the first device on this planet that actually generates life force, i.e., the Chi Generator, or generator of Od) and the explanation of magic, radionics, and the power of abstractions such as thought forms, gods, sigils, radionic settings, etc. (see my course "Magick of the Future"), the power of a Rune magic that is rooted in the realms of creation has increased significantly! A Rune can then become a creative energy that is continuously powered by life force coming from a Chi Generator. You can direct the general effect of its action and define the outcome of the operation. The Rune (or bind-rune) will then be the ultimate thought-form that works independently and creatively towards the result with an efficiency that the traditional "spirits", "familiars", etc., certainly can never exhibit. When studying the courses, especially the Basic Rune Course, be aware of the power of the realms of creation that you learn to access with your first lesson. With this awareness, you will gain a maximum benefit from your studies and you certainly will have the practical experience that helps you understand and use the tremendous power of the Armanen Runes. Karl Hans Welz
HAND AND BODY POSTURES of Runes are another way to draw Rune energies. They are the basis for a powerful Rune Yoga. In connection with a Runic Hermetic Medicine, Rune Yoga is a powerful tool for healing on all levels. With a Chi Generator, you can now give your Runes this extra power that has been achieved never before in history. E-mail me for a free transfer!
The Hexagon with the three inscribed diameters: This figure is often referred to as "the world crystal." In this figure, you can easily find every one of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes. Crystal practices with the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are very powerful! Of course, you will look in vain for a structural connection between a crystal and any one of the arrays of 24, 25, or even more "runes." The two Runic zodiacs: The natural zodiac of 16 + 2 basic energies as found in many traditions such as the Wiccan tradition. The other zodiac is the ancient subdivision of the year in 18 sectors of 20 days each. The periodic system of chemical elements. This, too, connects with the number of the Sacred Futhork, 18. The first period has two elements, hydrogen and helium. The second period has eight elements, and the third period has eight elements. The total of the first three periods is 18. The fourth and fifth periods have 18 elements each! The implications of this cosmic relation are enormous. Again, there is no hope for a Runic alchemy, a Runic homeopathy, and other practices that connect with the vibrations of chemical elements for arrays of 24, 25, or more "runes." From the above follows that the symbolism of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes with its wide ranging correlations is esoterically much more meaningful and naturally more powerful than any of the arrays of Runic alphabets that the many modern day "experts" and Rune gurus describe so exhaustively. Those persons limit themselves stubbornly to the use of Runes for readings and for a few practices of "religious magic" that usually connects with some nostalgia of ancient religion. Usually they see their Runes as symbols that stand for some worldly and spiritual meanings. Others see in the Runes an expression of some ancient gods. True perhaps, but the fact that Runes reach way beyond the realm of the gods and that they give access to the realms of creation (realms where you can actually create your gods) escapes them all together, and so does the tremendous power that is contained in this ancient true symbolism. We know that the ancient Norse religion was the last religious system that included some Runic practice in its belief structures. We know also that Runes cannot be limited to be part of any one religious belief system. Because of their universal esoteric basis (some of which I have shown above) the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are the basis for an esoteric and spiritual technology that can be of use for every intelligent being in the universe. Because of the superior power of this technology, many professional healers, psychics, occultists, and other persons who are in leading positions, are naturally drawn to the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes which they consider to be a most valuable asset.
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Letter of Instructions # 1
The Rune FA
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progress report. One of our Rune Masters will assist you in your studies and practice. You may ask him or her any question that may arise during your studies. This Rune Master will also monitor your progress and see that your work with the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes will be of optimal benefit for you. When you receive the sixth letter of instructions, of the Rune KA, you will be ready for initiation to be a Knight of Runes. This initiation gives you the right to be a full member of the KOR. With the last letter of instructions, you will be ready for initiation to be a Rune Master of the First Degree, or Baron of Runes. You may self-initiate or you may receive your initiation in a group setting. Many students who have no ties to any local group self-initiate first. Then, later, they will go through the same initiation with a group.
You may self initiate to the ranks of Knight or Rune Master or you may decide to experience a group initiation. The instructions for these initiations are in the letters of the Runes KA (#6) and GIBOR (#18). An initiation however is more thorough if you receive it together with a Runic empowerment. This empowerment is a ceremony of direct and personal transfer of Runic wisdom that pertains to the degree of initiation. Such empowerment connects you with the lineage of Rune Masters. You will receive a special instruction before your empowerment. We will give you the places, dates, and times, of empowerments upon request.
Before you begin to practice, it is necessary that you know a few important things about the course. In the letters of instruction you will find directions of how frequently you should practice and what practice you should do. You need to understand these instructions as suggested guidelines. It is always good for you to proceed at your own speed. It will also be useful that you consult with your Rune Master after you had your first experiences. If there is a need, you will receive additional guidelines that your teacher will adjust to your special needs and talents. Do not ever hesitate to ask for guidance in your studies! Membership in the Order of the Knights of Runes opens up new dimensions of "chivalry" in its true meaning. This means responsibility toward other living beings, love, support, and true tolerance. In return, members receive additional creative means to enhance the power of their Runic practices. For this reason, only members of the Order are entitled to receive the Rune Songs. The songs of the Runes -- such as the Song of Fa that you received with your first letter of instructions -are powerful means of helping you on your path toward mastery of Runes. These songs seem to be more explanatory than Odin's Rune Song or the verses of the Magical Poem. They do contain a deep symbolic language that gradually opens you up to the many levels of the creative realms. This will be evident as you continue to practice with these songs. Therefore it is very important that you practice the murmuring of the Rune Songs on a regular basis. This practice will introduce you to new dimensions -- or meanings --
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of the specific realm of the Rune of the Song. This practice will also open you up to an expanded view about the universe in general and of the creative realms of Runic energies in particular. Practice of the Rune Songs will give you awareness of the function and power of symbolisms in general. More importantly, this practice will smoothly introduce you to the function and power of the symbolism of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes. Murmuring or singing these Songs on a regular basis will enhance your skills in Runic practice as well as this practice will expand your insights in areas that are not immediately evident at a first reading of these Songs. Regular practice of the Songs is a powerful help for you to advance swiftly and safely to full mastery of the Runes. Many students have reported that murmuring of the Rune songs on a regular basis has developed and sharpened their psychic perception considerably. Most students experience rapid progress. This is so, above all, at the beginning of Runic practice when the student opens up to the energies of the realms of creation. This rapid opening up is a great thing, because it helps you get immediate evidence of the power of this ancient system of initiation. If this happens, you may be encouraged to such a degree that you expect outright miracles every time you practice. Many students, especially at the beginning, need to realize that it takes much practice and a lot of tuning into the Runic energies to become a master. Although initial progress is swift, there is no such thing as "instant runes" in the fashion of promises to lure you into a cute and cozy New Age weekend seminar. Runes are more than such surface knowledge! Therefore, even after an initial jump-start, you need to be aware that you acquire skills and mastery only after the appropriate time of study, persistence, and practice. Psychic training and runes are no exception. As a beginner, you may truly be excited when progress is initially swift. This is good so. Then all of a sudden everything seems to come to stagnation and even to a complete standstill. This is not a sign of alarm at all! You need to know that progress and advancement happen at more subtle levels at times of seeming stagnation. These subtle levels are not always obvious to the beginner. With all the initial excitement, never forget that it will take at least six lessons to familiarize yourself with Runes to a degree that allows you to properly use their creative energies. Even remarkable results right at the beginning are no contradiction to this truth. Never overestimate your powers after you have a few extraordinary initial experiences. Be assured that you will have such experiences in the first part of your studies and practice. Conversely, when you feel at times that there is no progress at all, be confident that you need periods of creative rest when the process of advancement happens subtly at your non conscious levels. During these times, the parts of your mind that are non conscious will recollect all that you have learned and they help you to fully assimilate the essence of your practice and experiences of Runes.
About Symbols and Symbolisms in the Rune Songs and Rune Poems "The ancient peoples used the vehicle of mythology to describe that which belongs to the realms of the psyche, the religious, and the spiritual." (Piobb, Formulaire de Haute Magie) 1. Odin's Rune Song
I know myself hanging on the wind cold tree for nine icy nights. Wounded by the spear, consecrated to Wodan I consecrated to myself. I was hanging on the mighty tree which conceals man Where man grew out of its roots.
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They offered me neither bread nor wine So I bent down in search. I recognized the Runes; wailingly I grasped them. Until I sank down from the tree. Now I began to increase, to be wise, To grow and to feel well. From the word, word grew after word And deed shaped to deeds with deeds. Now I know the songs like no wise one knows And none of the children of men. And should these songs, o human child, be unlearnables to you for sheer endless time; Grasp them as you get hold of them, use them as you hear of them. Hail you if you retain them!
The Song of Odin, the Magical Poem, the Rune Songs and the structures of Runic ceremonials, contain deep cryptic and symbolic significance. The writers of the songs and poems used such language to describe that which pertains to the realms of the physio-psychic, the metaphysical, the hyper physical, and the transcendental. They used ritual to bring about experience of things that words cannot describe easily. Odin's Rune Song and the eighteen stanzas of the Magical Poem (see lesson 3) show clearly the initiatic content of the powerful ancient tradition of the Runes. The more you advance in your opening up to the Runes and consequently to metaphysical truth, the more you will gain an understanding of these songs and the more you will benefit from the deep symbolic truths and evocative meanings that are contained in the Runic documents such as Odin's Rune Song and the Magical Poem. With this opening up you will be ever more capable of harnessing the creative powers of the Runes. The hidden and esoteric language of the Rune Songs, the Magical Poem, etc., will remain a secret to persons who did not receive an initiation in the knowledge of the Runes. For the initiated they are an open book. The initiated can read from this book whenever they wish to do so. However, even the non initiated person will benefit from these Runic documents. He/she will benefit on more subtle levels. The language in the Runic documents is to remain a secret to persons who prefer to read surface knowledge but decide not to practice. A typical reaction of some of such well meaning beginners is the accusation of "sexism" in the Runic documents. These folks are still unaware of the symbols that initiates use to describe the interplay of light energy with life energy. Runic knowledge is powerful knowledge that self protects. The symbolic language of the Runic documents keeps the careless, the unwary, and the non initiated from meddling with the powerful Runic energies and from dabbling with powers that they may not be capable of handling properly. Therefore the cryptic language in Runic documents is structured and presented in a way to provide you step by step with an understanding of Runic energies and with the tools to use these powers of creation properly. A good example of self-protection of this powerful knowledge and of the power of "hiding in symbols" is the fact that folks of the less savory kind (racist revivalists of Norse religion) that practice Runes are totally convinced of the "truth" of an inferior system, i.e., the so-called "Elder Futhark." You may best compare the symbolic language of the Runic documents to the symbolic language of the scientist. It is well-known that not everybody can understand scientific language such as chemical formulas and mathematical equations. Only the person who is "initiated" in a science is capable of understanding its
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language. Therefore only the person who is initiated in the science is capable of handling potentially dangerous things such as chemical compounds, physical energies, biological organisms, nuclear energies, and the like. One has to learn chemistry and its "esoteric" language (esoteric for the non initiated) to be allowed to work with chemical compounds. The chemical formulas are a secret language to a person who has never learned anything about this science. The trained chemist on the other hand finds a treasure chest of information in a book that is filled with chemical formulas. Enough was said here. Now the decision to open up to new energies of the creative realms lies with you. This opening up takes time and insight. Give it a chance and soon the mysterious Rune Songs will be an open book for you from which you can gather ever more valuable insights about yourself and the universe. These songs are more flexible than many works of natural science. This is so for the following reason: it does not matter at what point of your spiritual evolution you are. You will always find new information in these Runic documents. Besides a good working knowledge of Runic energies, this course will provide you with something still more exciting: You will acquire the necessary tools for a very important task: to advance to an understanding of the deepest mysteries of the universe in your never ending quest of Oneness with the Divine, or with Yourself.
The Rune FA
Fa is the Rune of original fire. It is a Rune that symbolizes the cosmos and the universe. FA symbolizes fire that acts creatively. It is will that sparks manifestation down to the material levels. FA is one of the Runes that rules the Salamanders, spirits of the fire element. It symbolizes change from within the creative levels and spiritual creation. FA represents the Phoenix that rises from its ashes. It is a Rune of fate, of mobility, and of wealth. Uses of FA: You can use Fa to attract and absorb Solar and Lunar energy as well as the energies of the planets and fixed stars. Practice this absorption of energy with the body posture of FA. FA also strengthens the personal magnetism. On the etheric planes it symbolizes the electric fluid. Practice of FA strengthens the spiritual powers. It is useful at the beginning of any healing. Fa is one of the Runes that you use to transfer energies. It is helpful in your practice to unfold the original fire. Time of the Year: December 22 through January 12. Runic Zodiac of 18: 0 degrees Capricorn to 20 degrees Capricorn. Note: The correlation with the degrees in the zodiac is an affinity not an exact superimposition. This means that the astrological zodiac may have its beginning anywhere in the Runic zodiac. The Runic zodiac
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has 18 Runic months of 20 degrees each. Number: 1 Mantra: fffffffff (visualize fire or a bright red and flaming Fa symbol). Note: Put the emphasis on the f-sound! some people make the mistake to chant faaaaaaaaaa, with hardly and "f" at the beginning. Chant: ffffffffffffaaa (much more "f" than "a"!)
The Rune UR
UR is the Rune of original cause of cosmic and planetary events. It is the Rune of original time. It is time at the threshold of creation: time-less time where space-time is irrelevant. UR connects with cause of causes, with original creation, with original immortality, and with original law of vibration. UR is the threshold of creation that Fa energizes with its impulse. It is creation for which created deities (or, even more ridiculous, anthropomorphic collective egregors of religions) take undeserved credit. It is original knowledge. Mythologically speaking the roots of the world tree, Yggdrasil, are in UR. It is here where the tree Norns, goddesses of fate and destiny, are spinning the threads of the web of time that determines the fates of humans and of gods. Here the fountain of wisdom is running to which the gods (think also of the gods within!) descend to gain knowledge and wisdom. Uses: From UR is coming forth continuously new existence. On the etheric levels it represents the healing Orgone energy and its structural linkages and magical uses. UR opens clair audience. Work with UR increases your capability to recognize the true origin, or root, of the universe and the true causes of everything. Practice of UR strengthens your healing energies. Time of the year: January 13 through February 3 Runic Zodiac of 18: 20 degrees Capricorn to 10 degrees Aquarius. Number: 2 Mantra: oo - oo - oo - oo rrrr. Emphasis on the oo-sound!
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your drawing and projecting of Runic energies. The set up outside yourself, or your temple room, is your outer Rune realm. The workspace that you establish within yourself is your inner Rune realm. The Rune realm of creation is the realm from which you draw your Runic energies. With your imagination you connect all three Rune realms. When your capability of visualization will be sufficiently advanced you may see the tree Rune realms connected with the axis of the (multidimensional) world tree, where the distance between the three Rune realms is perfectly equal. At that point you will also aware that your inner Rune realm is not completely inside yourself, your outer Rune realm is not completely outside, and by no means is the Rune realm of creation some isolated entity far away. Quite to the contrary, the three Rune realms permeate each other. With your practice you will more and more see these three realms as different expressions of one and the same thing. As you progress in this way you will increase your power to harness the Runic energies for anything you desire.
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your consciousness. When you align the four elements of will, emotions, mind, and consciousness, you can perform anything. To align these elements means to direct your will, emotions, mind, and consciousness, at the same goal. To achieve the skill of alignment of the four elements, I recommend that you study and practice the six lesson course "A course in Cosmic Consciousness" by Karl Hans Welz. A very important feature of the outer Rune realm is protection. In most magical traditions protection is symbolized by a circle that is traced, or imagined, around the practicing magus. For the protection to be powerful, your imagination needs to go beyond a mere circle. The least you need to do is envision a bubble that surrounds you. The circle represents your universe of which you are the Divine principle in the act of creation. Consequently you rule the creative energies of this universe. There can be no strong outer Rune realm without a set of Rune Staves. You arrange these staves in a circle around yourself. You begin with Fa in the North. Then you continue counterclockwise with all eighteen Runes all the way through GIBOR, which will be on the right side of Fa. If you practice with one or more Runes you take them out of the circle and put them on the altar in front of you. You should make your Rune staves yourself if you have the time and patience to do so. You find instructions of how to make your wooden Rune staves in the Rune Reading course. The Rune staves in the circle represent the creative energies in the universe. They connect with the Runes in the realms of creation as well as with the Runes in your inner Rune realm. In later lessons you will learn other rituals that are useful to establish and strengthen your outer Rune realm. At present it is sufficient if you set up this realm and focus shortly on each Rune, one by one, before each Runic practice. This will gradually increase the power of your outer Rune realm and its utensils. In group work this focus is done by chanting the eighteen Runes, one by one.
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1. Bring yourself in a comfortable position. If you do more than practice, set a circle of Runes around yourself as an outer Rune realm. 2. Relax your body and mind. You may use some form of progressive relaxation. Much better yet, use methods autogenic training. These methods are superior to the progressive relaxation methods. You may order a six-lesson course, Autogenic Training, from the KOR. 3. Imagine yourself being in a place that you consider to be appropriate for the inner Rune realm. This place may be a peaceful clearing in the woods, perhaps with a brook running through it. It may be on a quiet beach, on to of a mountain, in an old temple, or anything else that suits you. This place is your place of power and you are the ruler of this your universe. For your convenience and for easier access to the inner Rune realm you may order a tape "Establishing your Inner Rune Realm" from the Knights of Runes. Once you have established your inner Rune realm, you see yourself fully protected. This protection connects with the protective measures in your outer Rune realm (the bubble). In your inner Rune realm, you imagine a circle of Runes around yourself. These Runes may be giant stones, wooden staves, crystals, or anything else on which the Runes are inscribed. They are arranged in the same manner as the Runes in your outer Rune realm. Sometimes it is helpful to imagine the Runes around yourself in a glowing light. This glowing light indicates that the Runes draw their charge from the realms of creation. This charge flows over to the Runes of the outer realm. Being the Rune master of the universe that you have established in this way, you are aware that you are its absolute ruler. Better yet, surround the Runes with light that pulsates. This way the Runes get their own life much faster! After you have established your inner Rune realm, you may operate from there on a purely mental level. If your outer Rune realm is also present, then you keep awareness of the inner Rune realm present and you can now begin with any Runic, or other, ritual of your choice. It is necessary that you practice the establishing of your inner Rune realm until you have mastered it to the extent that you can establish it within a few seconds. To reach this point, the mastery of autogenic training is far more advantageous than the usual progressive relaxation methods.
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combination of sensory perception. Therefore, if we have a system of structural representations such as the Runic alphabet, the cabalistic system, or the Tarot, we can express the same structural system in a myriad of media other than pencil and paper. You know already of a few of the structures that give you access to Runic energies: The graphical outline that fits the hexagon with the three inscribed diameters. The Runic sounds that you can express with your voice, i.e., the system of Runic mantras. The connection with the field that surrounds the Earth. This connection is the basis of a natural zodiac of 18 creative energies. The connection with the numeric system that ascribes one specific number to each Rune. You need to learn other structures that connect with the Runes. Among the most important are: Runic sound pitches that are expressed with a Runic scale: Eighteen creative energies within the octave. Runic colors that connect with the spectrum of colors. Red for FA through red-violet for GIBOR. A connection with the periodic system of elements: 2 - 8 - 8 - 18 - 18! A system of smells, as expressed by specific Runic incenses. Hand positions that connect with specific Runic energies. Body postures that you can use to draw and project Runic energies. Specific breathing rhythms that connect with Runes. Poems and Songs that connect with Runes. And a lot more! The imagination of the Rune Master is the limit! In the following you will learn about body postures and hand positions of Runes. This way of expressing Runes is a very powerful method to gain access to their creative energies. Any combination of Runic structures will enhance the effect of the Rune. Therefore, if you visualize the graphic shape of the Rune in the color of the Rune while you chant the mantra of the Rune, you will have more power available than you would have by visualization alone. If, along with this, you practice the body posture of the Rune while you have the exact sound pitch of the Rune played in the background, you gain even more power. Add to this a good amount of life energy (see the course "Magic of the Future" where you learn how to perceive and direct life energies) and you will be ready for a magical action so powerful that hardly anything can withstand it! Body and hand postures connect you with the Runic energy they represent. You draw Runic energy into yourself and into the space that surrounds you when you practice a body or hand posture. These postures establish a direct link to the Runic realms of creation. You are the Rune while your body is in a posture that represents it. Body postures of Runes are very powerful tools in a ceremonial setting when several persons stand in such a way that they form the graphical outline of the Rune on the floor. In the following you will learn the hand and body postures of the Runes from FA, UR, IS, and MAN.
The Rune FA
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Body Posture: Standing upright, with the feet together, you point both arms forward and upward at an angle of approximately 30 degrees. The left arm is slightly higher than the right arm. Both palms are open to the front, drawing in energy.
Hand Position: The left arm points straight up. The thumb and ring finger form the two side-branches of the Rune FA. The other fingers point upward.
The Rune UR
Body Posture: Bending over, your arms and fingertips point toward the ground. Hand Position: Practice with the left or with the right hand. Position #1: Form the U-shape with your fingers. The open end of the U is pointing downward. Hold the hand approximately 8 inches from the center between your eyes. Position #2: Thumb and index finger shape the UR pointing downward. The other fingers point in the same direction as the index finger.
The Rune IS
Body Posture: Standing upright, your feet touch each other, the arms hang down on the sides.
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Variation: Same position, but the arms point upward, with the palms facing each other. Hand Position: Make a fist, with the index finger pointing upward.
Rune Mantras
A very powerful way of harnessing the creative energies of the Runes is the singing of Rune mantras. Especially the beginning student of Runes will experience the power of Runic energies in a very short time when she or he practices the singing of the mantras of Runes that are in harmony with the student's personality. For a small fee we can derive your personal Runes from your name and birth data. To sing Runes is to sing mantras of power. Once you sing a Rune consciously and the correct way, then you turn on a switch that gives you access to the transcendental energies of the Rune. This will happen whether it is your intention or not. Then the Runes will communicate to you gradually how you can
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manage and how you can use these energies, provided you are spiritually ready to accept the Runes and to overcome the bondage of the self imposed limitations and restrictions of the world tree. Once in tune with the creative energies (yes, this takes some practice!) you may harness them for your goals. Singing Runes will advance you on your path to mastery of these powerful creative energies. The KOR tape on Rune mantras will help you pronounce the Runes the correct way. This tape also contains additional valuable hints of how to trigger Runes by singing their mantras.
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3. Learn to establish your inner Rune realm. 4. Practice FA as described in the previous chapter. 5. Send your progress report to your Rune Master and write about your first experiences with this course. 6. Order lesson #3 (the Rune Thorn).
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Healing and UR
Runic practice is a direct route to your Higher Self. It takes this route through the awakening of what some Rune magicians refer to as the Odin consciousness within. The Rune master strives to achieve in a few lifetimes that for which the masses of human beings on this planet may need thousands of lifetimes. He or she strives to evolve into a higher form of existence. For this pursuit, the creative powers of the Runes are an ideal tool. This is so, because the energy of the Runes brings you in contact with the creative forces of the universe. At present our planet is on a relatively low stage of its evolution. This low stage is also a fantastic opportunity for those who are willing to work on themselves. Some claim that human beings are again at the brink of collectively failing yet another karmic test at a beginning of a new precessional age. In their opinion, success or failure at this crucial time will determine the general development that our planet is heading to.
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For this reason a general healing of the planet as a whole is more needed than ever before. It is everybody's responsibility to contribute to the ultimate success in the tests of our collective planetary karma. To heal is a responsibility that nobody can dismiss lightly! A true healing at the onset of this new precessional age means to bring about a change for the better for the planet as a whole. To cause such a healing of planetary dimensions, activity on the levels of creation is necessary. Moreover, such a healing is the task of a large group of human beings: many of us, not just a few! When you intend to participate in the healing of our planet, you need to first heal yourself! To do this, you need to re-evaluate your position within the web of life on this planet. Healing yourself also means that you need to strengthen and empower your individual consciousness before you take it upon yourself to help in the collective empowerment. It makes no sense at all to boost the collective consciousness at the expense of a person's individuality and then expect that this person acts responsibly. Centuries old experience has taught us that the way of conditioning people in such a direction of collectivization has produced not much more than mindless zombies. This way of organized religion is hopelessly bankrupt. The "cosmic experience" that such a brainwashed person may reach in a religious setting is worthless at best. In most cases religious experience is utterly unhygienic when seen under the aspect of life energy processes and sex-economy of the living being! The truly powerful person transcends the polarities of individual consciousness versus collective consciousness into an all encompassing state of being where such artificial division disappears. Heal yourself to the point that you love yourself first and foremost! Then it is easy to proceed to the universal love that encompasses the being as a whole -- your true ego! It is unfortunate but true that in no system of organized religion you can find awareness of the tools of the workshop of creation. The leaders of organized religion have not the slightest idea of access to these tools, let alone their proper use and power! True, in organized religion you will find some hint here and there of the necessity of a global healing. Most of these hints, of course, claim also that universal acceptance of the specific dogma of that creed alone can bring about such a global healing. Thousands of doomsday philosophies with elitist undertones evolved from such misunderstanding. The consequence is that one religion crusades against the other and each one of the religions considers all others false. The best way of dealing with this mess is to stay out. Just say NO to religion! We hear a lot of gobbledigook concerning global healing from the various New Age groups. I know of no such group that gives workable suggestions for the individual as to how he or she may contribute to better the karma of this planet. Sending "light" is not enough! Christian sects did something similar: They have prayed to their god for world peace for centuries. We all know the results. All there is, are thousands of false prophecies about tribulations, sinking coastlines, Atlantis emerging and other doomsday expectation that exceed even the false prophecies of the witnesses of Jehovah as far as their sheer amount as well as their idiocies are concerned. None of them ever came to pass. A true healing comes from each individual rather than from some sudden shift of the earth's axis, widespread flooding, being saved by exoterrestrials, and the like! It is the collective effort of individuals that can clean up the debris of negative karma that has accumulated throughout the ages. It is time that we recognize and use the tools of creation for our own benefit. These tools have been entrusted to us from the very roots (I say roots of time, not beginning of time!) of time on, so that we are capable of to master our destinies and with it the destiny of our planet. It is amazing how many human beings are not even aware of this gift that they possess. Read attentively the Song of UR at the end of this lesson so that your understanding of the nature of
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healing on levels will awaken in you, grow, and expand. Such a new understanding will open up new dimensions for you. You will then become increasingly aware of the extent to which a general healing will take place on this planet. There is truly a lot to be done by every responsible human being. Practice of UR will have another effect on you: It will bring about an understanding of the fact that the elimination of the Mother God Principle from human thinking has deprived mankind of the access to the very tools of the workshop of creation. This is a lesson to be learned from many old myths such as Adam and Eve, Lilith, Tiamat, and others. Practice with UR will expand your understanding until your whole being is imbued with the concept of All Mother God as an equal of All Father God. Then you may perhaps realize that the myth of original sin may have been generated by some male deity of a lower order! Such a deity was well aware that the easiest way to control people is to control and restrict their sexuality.
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True, to copy and write by hand takes some of your time, but this time is a rather small investment compared to the benefits that you will get from such a practice. While writing, you are writing in symbolic and evocative language, the meaning of which will communicate itself to you with Runic practice. As you advance you will penetrate the depths of this symbolic language and you will gain a deeper understanding of the hidden meanings of the poems and songs.
The Diary
The diary is another essential tool for the Rune student. In this diary you write all important steps in your development, your insights that you consider being significant, visions, actions, and results of your Runic practices. Whenever you decide to perform a Runic ceremony, you make your notes about it before you begin with it. You write down a step by step description of how you proceed, the timing, purposes, and means employed in the ceremony or operation. After you completed the operation you write down your impressions that you had during the work and any other comments that may cross your mind at that time. At a later time you should then add your commentaries about the success of the operation and possible changes in procedure when you do similar work in the future. It is good to cross reference these entries with the entries in your book of ceremonials. You can easily understand that the magical diary is one of the most useful tools in your practice and that it helps you improve upon your techniques and knowledge. You may also use your diary to write down the many insights that you have during your training and practice, visions, significant dreams, and anything else that you consider relating to your spiritual advancement. At a later date this diary will be a most useful documentation that will tell you how you used to think at an earlier time of your spiritual unfolding. It will tell you about your path in retrospect. When you read it at a
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later date you can determine how to proceed more effectively and how to avoid future errors. Neither the diary nor the book of ceremonials should ever fall in the wrong hands. The reasons for this are obvious. Rune masters of the past went to the extent of using secret codes for their diaries. Persons who accidentally read such a diary usually interpret such codes as "formulas to conjure spirits."
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The Rune OS
OS is the Rune of the fourth element which is the element of conscious manifestation. It is a Rune of Odic energy that frees us from the bondage of the perceived material world. Being the Rune of conscious manifestation it can give us strong magical powers. OS teaches us to recognize the laws that govern the magical universe and the magical hyper spaces. You can use OS to enhance the growth of your spiritual powers. You may use OS also to draw powerful astral and mental energies. Time of the year: February 26 through March 20 Number: 4 Mantra: o-o-o-o-o-o-s-s-s-s-s-s o-o-o-o-th-th-th-th-ee-ee-ee-l-l-l-l o-o-o-o-d-d-d-d-a-a-a-a-l-l-l-l
As you proceed with the study of this course you will receive the meanings, the body postures and hand positions of all Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes. Remember well the meanings of the Runes, because in these written meanings are contained the keys to their action. You can tune into Runic experience at any level of your practice. No matter how advanced you are, there will always be something beyond. Most students who are meant to experience the full extent of Runes in this lifetime will have almost immediate experiences when they begin with their first steps in the Rune realms.
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You proceed as follows: 1. Establish your inner Rune realm. By now you should be capable to do this with relative ease. 2. In the inner Rune realm focus your awareness on the Rune UR. 3. Draw UR into the center of your Rune realm where you are: You are all UR! 4. Connect further with the Rune UR and trigger its creative energies by singing the stanza of UR: "A second I know, quite useful for those who practice the healing hand ..." You may do the singing aloud or in your mind. 5. Draw the Runic energies of UR into your body. 6. Visualize the person whom you are targeting with healing energies. 7. Imagine the Runic energies flow to the target person, uninhibited by any limitations of space. 8. After several minutes of practice you return from your inner Rune realm back to your material universe.
Additional hints:
1. You gain access to your inner Rune realm by means of meditation practices as I have described in the first lesson. A great help is a guided meditation tape that helps you establish your inner Rune realm and enter it with ease. 2. It is a good help for your practice to visualize UR (or any other Rune) outside yourself, in front of yourself, shining brightly and having life in it (pulsating!). You need not see the Rune with your physical eye. Your imagination is mainly an awareness of the Rune being in front of you. At a later point of your practice you will begin to see the Rune with your inner eye. Notice that you are connected with the Rune that you are imagining. This way you open up a channel of energy between yourself and the Rune. 3. Once you established a Rune outside yourself you may proceed to draw Runic energies into your own body. Be aware that there is an infinite supply of Runic energy available. It is a good practice to draw the Runic energies into your body while you are inhaling. 4. Visualize the target person that you intend to heal. Imagine a channel of energy that reaches from you to that person. If the person is in the same room as you are you simply imagine a channel between yourself and that person through which you send Runic energies. If the target person is at a distant place you establish a bridge between you and that person. 5. While you exhale, you project the Runic energy from your body through the channel that you have established into the target person. 6. Repeat the process of drawing energy into yourself and projecting it to the target person as long as you feel is beneficial: perhaps between five and fifteen minutes. With every draw and push you retain a bit of
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Runic energy for yourself. When you practice the transfer in this way you actually gain strength yourself while you are sending healing energies others. 7. When you decide to end the operation, simply stop the imagination processes of drawing and sending Runic energies. Mentally you should thank the Rune for its energy and send it back to the realms of creation. Ground any surplus energies through your feet into the ground. This way you prevent from being overcharged with Runic energy. Next you sever your conscious connection with the reams of the Rune by becoming once again consciously aware of the things that are around you: Listen to the sounds of your environment, direct your awareness to the things that you see around yourself, notice the smells, feelings, etc., and smoothly lead yourself back into your everyday perceptions and experiences.
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Much of what we know about Runes has been handed down to us from an ancient and mysterious past. Some of it came from the very dawn of mankind. Some Rune masters such as Karl Spiesberger claim that there was an Atlantean Yoga that was at the root of all existing Yoga systems. I do not agree with this claim. However I think that it is not antiquity that makes Rune Yoga such an exceptional tool, but the effects that it has on you when you practice it. Rune Yoga encompasses the whole of the person. Its practice will be beneficial to your body, mind, emotions, and will power. Rune Yoga is a unique combination of body and hand position, controlled breathing techniques, Rune Mantras, focus on specific shapes (Rune symbols), meditative awareness of realms within, and ceremonial settings. Rune Yoga is an excellent way to achieve general balance. It is a gateway to deep mystical experiences. It helps opening your chakras. Like Hatha yoga, it can help you to a slender, healthy body. A very important aspect of Rune Yoga is that it can intensify your power to project healing energies and Light. Rune Yoga gives you the power to project energies at any target, no matter how distant this target may be. Rune Yoga is easier to practice than the Indian Hatha Yoga system. This is so, because Rune Yoga uses the principle of SHAPE INDUCED ENERGIES in a multi-sensual and multi-focused experience. Such experience that involves as many of your sensory organs as possible and several mental foci at the same time is very effective. The body positions of Rune Yoga are much easier to practice than the rather difficult contortions of the Indian Hatha Yoga. Rune Yoga is rooted in the principle of shape induced energies, or shape vibrations. It is easier to practice than the Eastern Yoga systems, especially Hatha Yoga. This is so because the body positions of the eastern Hatha Yoga are rather complicated. We generate (or attract) shape induced energies (shape vibrations) whenever we use a specific shape to connect with an energy of a higher order such as (in the case of Runes) energies of creation. The word, shape, can mean any one of many different things. A graphical outline is a shape. A mantra is a shape that involves sound frequency and time. Your hands and your body as a whole are ideal tools to posture shapes. The shape of the body or the hand posture then can be a trigger of the cosmic energies that the it represents. For you to understand what I mean here, I remind you of a pyramid. It is relatively irrelevant of what material the pyramid is made, for it to develop pyramid energies. On the other hand, the shape of the pyramid is very important. Therefore, we say that pyramid energy is a shape induced energy, or a shape vibration. Posing a Rune easily develops the Runic energy pertaining to this shape. So does the "mudra," or hand position of the Rune. Both of these you have practiced in the previous lessons. Because of the conductivity of the human body, SHAPE-posing with your hand or body, sometimes with both, is one of the most effective methods available to generate powerful fields of Runic energy. Shapes, or body postures of the Hatha Yoga are beneficial for the health of the body and mind. The practitioner of Rune Yoga is AWARE of the energies that come from the realms of creation when he/she draws them with a body or hand posture. You can feel these energies easily. Consequently you are capable to progress more swiftly, smoothly, and, especially, with much more ease when practicing Rune Yoga. The Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes allow you an intimate connection with the realms of creation facilitates your development of mental, psychic, and spiritual powers. Consequently, if you study Rune Yoga, you can develop yourself to be a powerful receiver and transmitter of cosmic vibrations. The Rune THORN is your first step towards getting in touch with deeper and more elaborate methods of
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sending and receiving energy. You will then experience the energies in much more complex and powerful forms than possible with many other methods with which you are familiar. Practicing Runes, you will gradually become acquainted with methods of sending and receiving which transcend space-time as we generally understand it. The practice of Rune Yoga includes all steps of yoga, or discipline, which are part of most spiritual developments. 1. Purification and control of your body with diet. 2. Special methods of purification with Runes (see lesson 7 -- HAGAL) and with Rune positions that are beneficial for the well being of your body. 3. Purification and cleansing of your aura and chakras. For this type of purification you can use special Runic methods that you will learn in lesson 9 -- IS. 4. Control of breath, especially with Runic visualizations. 5. Special practices with Runic sounds. 6. Control of emotions, achieved with Runic practice, especially the practice of IS. 7. Ridding yourself of obstructive distraction. 8. Opening up to higher psychic powers. 9. Recognizing your True Ego, which is unencumbered by everyday distraction, and getting in touch with your Higher Self in the practice of Runic Empowerment as experienced in your initiations. 10. Expansion of your consciousness into the realms of the Cosmic-Divine and active participation in the process of Creation-Eternal. Only the power of truth, the power of true thought, the power of responsible directed will, the power of well-managed emotions, will lead us to the original realms of creation-eternal. Practice of Rune Yoga will help you achieve this goal. Once you master the steps of Rune Yoga, you will be capable of consciously tapping in the centers of power that lie beyond the confines of our physical worlds, and you will be capable of triggering forces of manifestation that you are drawing from the realms of eternal creation. Most students are familiar with the positions of the Eastern Yoga. Those positions may appear grotesque to some people. They also demand a good degree of flexibility of the body. If practiced correctly, exercises of the Eastern Yoga (Hatha Yoga) lead to excellent health, since they supply all organs well with blood, develop a strong nervous system, supply the cells of the body, cause harmonious glandular functions, and well-balanced hormonal distribution. Runic positions are not as difficult as the asanas of the Hindu Yoga. They are much easier to practice for many people. They lead to similar results for the body. When you pose a Rune you are not so much concerned with squeezing some parts of your body, while other parts are expanded. Rune positions act mainly as triggers for shape vibrations. The specific shape symbol of the Rune, positioned with your body (or hand) draws energy from the realms of Creation. Therefore, besides a beneficial impact upon the health and well feeling of your body, there will also be an impact upon the more subtle parts of your body
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in a true holistic experience. Practice of Rune positions teaches you control of your body, emotions, mind, and will powers.
ASCETICISM
From the most remote times of human history, many religions and esoteric training systems have regarded asceticism as a very important tool for spiritual progress. In fact, some systems put so much emphasis upon asceticism that they ended up causing irreversible damage to body and soul by gross exaggeration and wild excesses in "mortification of the flesh." Some organizations use milder forms of asceticism to cause an imbalance in perception and thinking in potential members. As a consequence they become more susceptible to mind control techniques. Watch for coolaid and cookies in those weekendintensives!!! Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or for individual development, unless it is used as a remedy to clean the body from slags. Some magical and religious systems require a temporary abstinence from meat or animal food for specific ceremonials as a way of preparation, and then only for a specified period of time. The same holds for sexual abstinence. The idea that, by eating the meat of an animal, the "impurities" of the animal would be conveyed to the person who eats it, is nonsense and originates in ignoring the perfect and primal laws. Such thinking is very kin to the thinking of the cannibal who tries to acquire the courage of a slain warrior by eating his flesh. The Rune Master does not pay attention to such misconceptions. In the interest of your development, you should be moderate in eating and drinking and observe a reasonable mode of life. It is impossible to present precise rules or prescription, since the way of life is individual. No doubt, for many persons vegetarianism is an excellent tool, especially when they live in a country where, on the one hand, there is much overemphasizing of and misinformation about meat eating, and profit oriented reckless pollution of meat on the other. You must know what best agrees and disagrees with you, and you must then act responsible. It is a sacred duty to keep the balance everywhere. Health is your responsibility. Should your body be out of shape, consult a good nutritionist. Needless to say, non-foods and drugs are a no-no. During your training, you will exercise three kinds of discipline: 1. Intellectual or mental discipline 2. Psychic or astral discipline 3. Physical or material discipline The first kind has to do with the discipline of thoughts, the second is engaged in ennobling the soul through control of passions and instincts, and the third kind is concerned with harmonizing the body through a moderate and natural way of life.
CONTROL OF BREATH
Runic practice is unthinkable without proper control of your breath. In fact, every Runic practice contains three elements: a body or hand position (or both), a breathing practice (which includes sometime singing or chanting of the Rune), and a single or multiple focus: the point from where you draw or where you project Runic energies.
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If Runic practice provided us alone with benefits of proper breathing, this alone would be reason enough to practice Runes daily. You need to be aware of the importance of breathing, proper breathing, which is beyond just material-physical benefits. Few human beings are breathing correctly. Consequently their body cells do not receive sufficient oxygen. Waste materials are not sufficiently eliminated and will accumulate consequently. Diseases of all kinds, emotional disturbance, tiredness, and many more imbalances are the consequence. Besides supplying the body with oxygen and eliminating waste materials, correct breathing also massages your inner organs continuously. When you inhale, then the diaphragm gently presses upon the intestines, stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. When you exhale, then the diaphragm gently massage your heart and lungs. In continuous change, one group of organs is gently massaged while the other group is relaxed and has space to expand. Breathing also supplies you with life energies. The Yogi calls this energy "Prana." Others call it Chi energy. In the West, we are talking about Odic energy, or Orgone energy. This energy can be measured with scientific instruments. More important so, this energy can be directed consciously to various parts of your body, and transferred to other people. You can actually generate Odic practices. Odic energy can be dynamized by attaching specific Runic energies that will benefit on the material, etheric, and other planes. To facilitate your work with prana, you should acquire a Welz Chi Generator. With this generator, you can also power up the energy of any Rune of your choosing. Write the manufacturer, HSCTI (P.O. Box 666033, Marietta, GA 30066) for more details.
THE RUNE
RIT
RITA = right. RIT is the Rune of original law, of Divine law. It connects with the powers of all-justice. RIT signifies religion, inner strength, and ritual. It is the Rune of the cosmic rhythm of the worlds. RIT symbolizes movement, rotation, wheels, and spiraling development and unfolding. It is the Rune of the rolling Sun-wheel, of rhythmic and of dance. Uses: RIT allows you to tune into the rhythms of the worlds. It awakens higher powers. It strengthens inner guidance. It increases your experience of ritual. RIT directs thoughts toward inner guidance. It strengthens your power of visualization and establishes psychic links with any target. Time of the year: March 21 through April 12. Number: 5 Mantra: rrrrrr, rrrriiiit
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THE RUNE
KA
KA is a sexual Rune. It is the Rune of capability, the occultist, and of higher mysteries. Uses: Like THORN, KA is a Rune of protection against magical attacks. KA gives intuition, inspiration, and it connects with the universe. KA connects with higher polarity. It increases courage. Time of the year: April 13 through May 5. Number: 6 Mantra: k-k-k-k-aaaa.
THE RUNE
HAGAL
Fire refers here to "the fire of thirst." HAG-ALL = take care of the universe. It contains the symbolism of the omnipresent and all-penetrating creative energy. HAGAL is the symbolism of the builder-architect of the worlds. The seven is the rhythm of the Solar System. It connects with he BNE ELOHIM, Venus-entities (Venus = 7), who create the world in an eternal NOW (see Gen1,1). HAGAL is the Rune of the world tree, of the world, of the tree of life. It is a combination of MAN and YR, NOD and EH. HAGAL is maintenance and equilibrium of the moving universe. It is the Rune of the zodiac, and mother of all Runes that signifies continuous change. HAGAL leads to the spiritual leader. In the microcosm it represents man, in the macrocosm it represents the universe. Uses: HAGAL gives protection and harmony. It serves as the solid point within the flight of phenomena. It eliminates the burning thirst for thing that are not important in life. It provides consciousness of Oneness with the Divine. It brings spiritual powers and wisdom. It increases the functions of the pineal gland and of the solar plexus. Time of the year: May 6 through May 28. Number: 7 Mantra: hag-all
The Rune
NOD
NOD is the Rune of karma. In the Northern tradition, NOD is the Rune of the Norn, goddess of destiny. It is the Rune of karmic debts (the Norn SKULD), of karmic law, of karmic need. NOD signifies Divine justice that balances. "Hate" in the song refers to unresolved karma. Nod helps to master your karma after you have accepted it. NOD symbolizes the appearance out of the infinite, out of the undefined. It connects
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with the Divine that manifests itself within the finite universe, for "a god who does no manifest itself is dead" (Feuerbach). Uses: NOD makes you aware of your karmic debts and it helps dissolve karma. It leads to truth and fitting into the cosmic order, or the Divine Plan. NOD brings the protection of high spiritual entities of our Solar System. Use your karma and live it consciously. Time of the year: May 29 through June 20. Number: Mantra: nnnnnnnn, nnnnoooooddddd, aepandi nam.
2. BODY POSITIONS AND HAND POSITIONS OF THE RUNES THORN THROUGH NOD
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BODY POSITION: Standing upright, feet together, left arm angles, hand on hip, palm touches hipbone. HAND POSITION The tips of thumb and ring finger of the left hand touch each other. Other fingers pointing upward.
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OS
BODY POSITION: Standing upright, left leg lifted, pointing forward, tips of toes pointing downward, left arm parallel with the left leg. Variation: Right leg pointing to the side (instead of forward), right arm parallel to right leg pointing downward. HAND POSITION: Thumb and index finger of the left hand form circle.
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THE
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OTHIL
(Variation of OS) BODY POSITION: Hands above head, palms touching each other, legs apart. HAND POSITION: Thumbs and index fingers form the shape of OTHIL, other fingers touch. Practice on solar plexus.
THE
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RIT
BODY POSITION: Standing upright, left arm at angle (like THORN), left leg lifted. HAND POSITION: Left arm upright, left index finger and thumb touch on the tips, other fingers point downward, parallel to palm.
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THE
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KA
BODY POSITION: Standing upright, both arms point upward, palms point downward. Hands touch each other. HAND POSITION: Left hand: all fingers point upward, thumb in right angle to palm, pointing upward.
THE
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HAGAL
BODY POSITION: Standing upright, arms crossed in front of chest. HAND POSITION: Both hands forming the letter "H," palms parallel, thumbs touching each other.
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THE
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NOD
BODY POSITION: Right arm in angle upward, left arm downward. Variation: Right arm upward, left leg to the side. Variation 2: Cross-position, after speaking "Aepandi nam" bring hands to hips. HAND POSITION: Right hand, fingers point upward, thumb to the side, a bit more than with KA. Variation: With both hands above head, index fingers form shape of the Rune NOD.
THORN
1. Practice the body and hand positions of THORN. Practice THORN, include murmuring the Song of THORN. 2. Practice the body positions of FA, UR, THORN, and MAN, one after the other, and FEEL the Runic energies in your body. Be aware of the differences of the Runes. 3. Practice the hand position of THORN while inhaling think the mantra of THORN (th-th-th-th-o-o-o-o-r-rn-n-n), and while exhaling, project THORN energies in your hand. FEEL the effects. 4. Practice healing with UR. When you project the healing energies, make the hand position of THORN to facilitate sending of the healing energies. 5. Send your Progress Report to your Rune Master; write about your experiences with Rune Practice.
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Welcome ...
... to your fourth Rune on your path to be a Rune Master. OS has a special meaning in this path. It is the Rune that teaches you to accept the fruits of your efforts. It provides you with the spirit -- or attitude -- to accept these fruits without setting up new limitations for yourself. Your Runeing of the Song of OS has a powerful consequence: It will provide you with the understanding of acceptance-in-freedom. OS will increase your psychic powers. It contains powerful spiritual energies that lead to freedom. To those who need it, OS can give the power of convincing speech. OS readies you to accept the highest astral and mental energies. These are the energies that belong to the astral and mental planes. While FA is a Rune of sending, OS is a Rune of receiving. Better yet: FA is a Rune of the first spark, or of the fire that kindles an event, while OS provides you with the results. In many ceremonials, OS is used to receive and to accept energies. In the practice of transferring healing energies and light, OS is one of the most powerful tools. It is to be practiced by persons who receive the healing energies. In a group situation each person may signify one specific Runic vibration. A group practice of Runes produces more powerful results: your practice will be more effective and the energies that you will harness will be more abundant.
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of realms much beyond of the realms that appear tangible to us. This is so especially when the hand position appears in combination with a body position that expresses the same thing as the hand position. Persons who are aware of psychic energies may notice shifts of realms of levels of reality when of finger- or hand-positions are practiced. We know that the Hindu Yogis are using finger- and hand-positions for specific spiritual and psychic purposes. The yogi calls these positions "Mudras." Rune hand positions serve in the main to attract energies from the realms of creation. Like body-positions, hand-positions are triggers of "shape vibrations" or shape induced energies. We remind the reader that pyramid-energy is such an energy that is induced by a shape. Shape induced energies can be verified various means, including technological devices. In fact, the symbol of the HAGAL Rune produces effects similar to the effects of pyramids. Shape induced energies may be triggered by many symbols, not just pyramids or Runes. Persons who mastered the realms of shape induced energies are capable of charging these energies with their specific requests, ideas, or wishes. Whenever you shape the symbol of a Rune with your hand or with both of your hands you draw the energies of the Rune into your body. From there you may direct it anywhere. One of the effects of Runic hand-positions, or mudras, is that they align the polarity of your body molecules with the Runic energy that you attract with your hand position. Here, I understand the term "molecule" from a hyperphysical point of view! I give you a hint about Runic methods that are rooted in the relation of the 18 Sacred Futhork Runes with the periodic system of elements. As a result of continuous practice of Runic hand positions you become increasingly aware of the more subtle components of your body. The same practice will also bring awareness of the more subtle parts of your universe. You are then capable of restructuring, realigning, and balancing those parts. Again, be aware that the full benefit of practicing Rune mudras does not come over night, nor will a weekend workshop provide you with "Instant Runes!" When you practice Rune mudras, especially in a group situation of mutual exchange, you will effect a general healing cleansing of your body and of your Aura; and you will charge and awaken your chakras, or spiritual centers. In a group situation, this general healing and cleansing will affect the group as a whole. Runic hand positions have a very special role in the balancing, awakening and developing of chakras, especially in group practices! More details of these very powerful practices are in the Rune Yoga/Rune Healing course. Gradually, you will be introduced to knowledge of the benefits of Rune Mudras.
A very effective way of practicing Rune Mudras is to mentally chant the mantra of the Rune while inhaling. While exhaling you feel then the Rune energy stream through your hand (the hand that poses the mudra) into your body.
CONTROL OF BREATH
Runic practice is unthinkable without proper control of your breath. In fact, every Rune practice contains at least three elements: A body-or-hand-position, or both, a breathing practice, which sometimes includes singing of the Rune mantra, or of a Rune song, and a single or multiple focus to dynamize and direct the Runic energies. All three elements will shift during the course of the practice. When, while working the lesson of UR, you have practiced healing with Runes, you already employed these three principles. You need to be aware that breathing is very important. However, few human beings are breathing correctly. Consequently, their body cells do not receive sufficient oxygen and waste materials are not sufficiently eliminated. Diseases of all kinds, emotional disturbances, tiredness, and depression, are but a few of the many consequences of improper breathing. Breathing also supplies us with life energy. In the East, this energy is called "prana." In the West, scientists gave it many names: Animal Magnetism (Mesmer), Orgone energy (Reich), or Odic energy (von Reichenbach), Solar Ether (Korschelt) to name but a few. Orgone can be measured with scientific
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instruments, accumulated with orgone accumulators (the first ones wer built by Franz Anton Mesmer some 200 years ago) and generated with the Welz Chi Generators. Still more important is the fact that Odic energy can be directed consciously. Furthermore, you can attach energies of a higher order to this energy, thus modulating it for specific effects. Then you can dynamize it and send it anywhere you decide to produce results on the material, etheric, astral, and higher planes. You need to be aware that with normal -- non conscious -- breathing the body is supplied with only as much Odic energy as is necessary for its normal functioning. The situation is quite different when you practice conscious breathing! Conscious breathing can supply you with huge quantities of Odic energies is a relatively brief time. If you visualize or imagine a thought, an idea, or a Rune into the air to be inhaled, it will connect with the Odic energy, pass through the lungs into the blood vessels, and charge not only the body with raw life force, but it will stream through the astral matrix into the astral body, from there through the reflective mental matrix into the spiritual body. This process, understood correctly, explains the secret of breathing from an esoteric point of view. Many theologies use techniques of conscious breathing for instructive purposes, as does the Hindu Yoga system, without completely being aware of the processes involved. In fact, there are people who have suffered severe damages to their health as a consequence of some of the extreme breathing exercises demanded by some of the Yoga schools. In most of these deplorable cases, the inexperienced reader has been persuaded to do the breathing practices, because they were promising an acquiring of psychic and occult powers. If you want so, you will reach those goals much more easily sooner with the help of the Runes. As you have been reading the preceding, you have become aware that it is not the quantity of the inhaled air which matters, but it is the quality. Quality is enhanced by the Runes with which you are impregnating the Odic component of the airflow into your body. Therefore it is not necessary, in many cases not even advisable, to pump the lungs full with a lot of air and putting needless strain on them. Do your breathing exercises slowly and calmly, without haste, tension or strain. As an exercise, sit down in a comfortable position, relax the whole body, and inhale slowly through the nose. As you inhale, you imagine that, with the inhaled air, the Odic energy is very powerful, and imagine that this Odic energy is filled with the energy of the Rune UR. You know that UR causes your body to feel healthy and calm. Imagine UR being around you. Whenever you inhale, you draw UR into your body, and whenever you exhale, you distribute the healing energies of UR into all parts of your body. You feel the healing energies in every part of your body.
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themselves contain the energy, another group of people who believe that it is necessary that a symbol is charged, a third group which puts the charging back some millennia, a fourth that only the belief of the person who works with the symbol is energizing it. The arguments go on and on, and the truth may be somewhere in between. It seems that we need an all-encompassing theory of symbols, which includes all the know facts, rather than fruitless discussions of what is "true" or "false" according to metaphysical mental acrobatics. People who discuss metaphysics of symbolisms have yet to reach the scientific insights that allowed quantum mechanics in physics emerge, which is a theory encompassing various facts that are apparently at odds with each other. The type of "truth" which scientifically untrained and ignorant metaphysicists (the bulk of them, I am sorry to need to point out) try to achieve belongs to the purely verbal levels. Verbal levels of this kind are based on a language that developed thousands of years ago and which necessarily reflects the primitive metaphysics of these times. Using such a pre-conceived mapping, these metaphysicists fall victim to the structures inherent in language, they squeeze the facts that they examine into it and consequently they reach theories as inadequate as the primitive metaphysics that shaped the linguistic structure to begin with. Consequently, there is no progress, just endless philosophizing. While arguing in terms of languagebased "truth," this class of metaphysicists becomes totally oblivious of the factual basis of their theories, and that raw experience and usefulness of a method are criteria much more valid than volumes of fruitless logical and philosophical treatises, discussions, and speculations. Seen from this point of view, it is of little concern to us whether or not symbols are inherently charged, invisibly and inaudibly pink, and what not. For our convenience, we talk about shape vibrations that can be found in Rune symbols and positions, as well as in the sounds of Rune mantras. The effects of such structural links can be demonstrated with relative ease (see the course "Magic of the Future"). What is of interest here is that we have several useful methods of working with Rune symbols, that we consequently can observe effects on the material and conscious planes, and that we are able to formulate natural laws, or convenient mappings which explain the interaction of Runes with the material planes, and that we can apply the laws thus found for devising new methods, or technologies, of applying Runes for many purposes. With Runes, we have not only a set of symbols, but we have a symbolism. Before I am going to talk more about this symbolism, let me first explain what I mean when I use the word "symbol."
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4. The energetic aspects of a symbol may be derived from its symbolic and/or evocative meaning. The symbol serves as a trigger that gives access to its energies. 5. A symbol may be part of a symbolism. When I say symbolism, then I mean an ORDERED ARRANGEMENT of symbols, in which the order of the symbols and their position to each other is of key importance. The symbolism, containing all symbols, is a symbol in itself. It is a symbol of a higher order than the symbols that are its constituting parts. In a symbolism, each symbol that is part of it relates to all other symbols because of its position within the symbolism. In a symbolism which we call linear, such as an alphabet, each symbol is numbered. The number given to the symbol determines its position within the linear symbolism. This number does not describe the symbol in a "numerological sense," nor does such a number add its own, non-numerological or other, meaning to the meaning of the symbol. Other symbolisms may be laid out in a plane, such as the zodiac (which is numbered too). In such a symbolism, the relations are more complex than in a simple linear symbolism. The realm of a symbolism encompasses more than the sum total of its individual symbols. On the other hand, an arbitrary array of symbols has hardly any dimension of symbolism beyond the mere sum total of its individual symbols. In an array of symbols, the position of each symbol to every other is of no importance. Symbols in general represent a form of mapping of the realms for which they are relevant. The symbolism of chemistry, for example, is base on the periodic system of the elements. It is valid for the realm of chemical reactions of matter. The fact that we do no know of anything material which we could not express with chemical formulas does not mean the symbolism of chemistry constitutes some kind of allencompassing world-mapping, or world-formula, which may be used to describe everything, from life functions to nuclear explosions. Chemical formulas can describe some aspects of all those phenomena. Similarly, we may state that we do not know of anything that does not have aspects that we can describe with the symbolisms of physics, astrology, mathematics, the cabalistic symbolism, etc. Yet, none of these symbolisms should be viewed as a world formula. They may be useful mappings, no more. But there are people out there who confuse that which they can describe with the mapping itself, hence the "worldformula syndrome" found in many metaphysical circles, among astrologer, cabalists, and in circles of many "skeptics" whose background is a mere pop science (this horrible distortion of useful science that takes on many of the negative aspects of a fanatic religious creed). Esoteric, metaphysical, or hyperphysical, symbolisms have an essential distinction from purely materialistic symbolisms, such as physics, chemistry, or materialistic biology. These symbolisms are standing for energies of a higher order. This means that they generally contain a system of gradual initiation which reaches into realms of thought and into planes that are beyond the purely material planes, while in a purely material-planes based symbolism the dimensions of finer densities may be omitted. The 18 Sacred Futhork Runes have all characteristics of a hyperphysical symbolism. They are hyperphysical, because Runes reach into dimensions well beyond the confines of the limited space time continuum which physics, chemistry, etc. describe. The 18 Sacred Futhork Runes are a symbolism and not a mere array of Runes. They are a linear symbolism, or a numbered alphabet, where the position of each Rune is important. They are also a symbolism of higher order, which may be arranged in the zodiac, or in a plane, with its own, specific, interrelations from Rune to Rune. Positions within the symbolism allows to derive meanings of the Runes valid for the specific context of the symbolism. The mantras of the Runes constitute another, sound based, symbolism. Runes and their symbolisms represent mappings of the Realms of Creation, which give us useful methods of interacting with those realms and relating them to the world in which we live.
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The 18 Futhork Runes represent a path of initiation (which is beautifully shown in Odin's Rune Song), provided the student elevated him/herself to the level where the deep symbolic meanings of the various Rune documents can be understood. Odin's Song shows you how to experience Rune initiations, while the "magical poem" provides you with a system of triggers that gives you access to the transcendental energies of the Runes. To experience the depths of Odin's Rune Song is an important step toward gaining full access to the Rune Realms of Creation. After you experienced Odin's Rune Song and after you experienced the 18 stanzas of the magical poem, you will no longer have any doubt as to whether you should work with the 18 Sacred Futhork Runes, or whether you should dabble in some incoherent arrays of "Runes, AngloSaxon" (there are some 35-plus arrays of them), "elder," and what not. The symbolism of the Runes is multi-ordinal and stratified knowledge. First, you will get acquainted with each individual Rune, and you will experience the realm of this Rune. With your Runic empowerments, first as a Knight, and then as a Rune Master, everything will fall in place, and the symbolism of the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes will communicate itself to you. Form then on, you Runic work will be backed by your connection with the realm of the symbolism as a whole. It is also backed by the group energy of the Knights of Runes and Rune Masters, past, present, and future. After the first initiation, you may again go the path of each individual Rune, now with increased contact with the realm of the symbolism, to a more advance level, up to your next initiation. Initiations are optimally experience as part of a special ceremonial, performed by a group.
EXERCISES
1. Copy the Song of OS is your book of ceremonials (if time allows). 2. Murmur the Song of OS and practice OS. 3. Practice the hand positions of FA, UR, THORN, and OS, and combine those hand positions with the breathing technique described under "control of breath." While inhaling, mentally sing the mantra of the Rune. Feel the flow of Rune energies, and experience the Runes within yourself. 4. Send your progress report to your Rune Master and write about your experiences. Please enclose donation for your next lesson.
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CANDLES
There is hardly any ceremonial where Light would not play an important role. Light is neutral. Depending on the action to be performed it assumes some color. Since Light is so important, most ceremonials contain and include something that symbolizes Light. Candles are the preferred utensil to symbolize Light. Of course, there are deeper symbolic meanings connected with candles than that of giving Light. As you become familiar with various methods involving candles you will understand better the many symbolic meanings that candles connect with. Consequently you will be capable to touch upon more dimensions that involve the symbolism of the candles This will greatly increase the effectiveness of your magical operations. Candles, as we know, are made of various materials, mostly paraffin, more seldom true bees' wax. Candles may be scented and colored, tailored to special lengths and shapes, etc. As you progress, you will learn to include colors and shapes of candles into the overall symbolism of your ceremonial.
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The significance of candles reaches into may levels. Since candles are mostly thought to symbolize Light, they are the only source of light in many ceremonials. The specific color of the candle will symbolize the sphere(s) with which the operator wants to be in contact during the ceremonial. The number of candles used has another symbolic meaning. Operators who practice evocations and who work with the higher order energies that are part of planetary spheres match the number of candles with the number of the planet: three candles for evocations of Saturn or of beings of the sphere of Saturn, four candles for Jupiter, five for Mars, six for the Sun, seven for Venus, eight for Mercury, and nine for the Moon. Candles are an excellent tool to help the powers of visualization and imagination. The flame of a candle is an ideal focus. In some magical practices you may internalize this focus. When you practice with Runes you may use any number of candles that correspond to the specific higher order energies used in your operation. You may use one candle that has the Rune engraved which you practice. Instead of engraving the Rune, you may put the candle (candleholder) on a piece of cardboard or wood that has the Rune drawn on it. This Rune may be charged before use. Excellent is a set of 18 candle holders, each one with another Rune drawn or engraved on it.\ Many ceremonials require the use of more than one candle. It is good practice to use one candle for each Rune that you use in the ceremonial. You may use three neutral candles, i.e., candles that have no Rune inscribed. These three candles would then symbolize the three groups of Futhork Runes. You may use five candles if you want to take advantage of the dynamics of the pentagram. You may use six candles which represent the Hexagram, or six candles with a seventh candle in the center, if you want to symbolize the Hexagram with the three inscribed diameters, mother of Runes. You may use nine candles which, in Runic ceremonial, represent the Rune IS, the true ego, bridge to your Higher Self. You may go all the way and use eighteen candles in your ceremonial, one for each Rune. When you use eighteen candles, I recommend that you inscribe one Rune on each candle. You arrange those eighteen candles the same way you arrange the 18 Rune Staves. You may put one candle to the side of each Rune stave. Candles of made bees wax have some advantages over candles made of paraffin: There is more "life" in them. The color of the candles is to match the purpose of your operation. White candles are good for every operation. In the case of bees wax candles, the natural wax coloris equally universal. One candle alone or two candles serve as an excellent focus. Such a focus is very helpful for your concentration and visualization powers. Two techniques are useful, depending on the number of candles. While looking at the flame of one candle see visions in the halo around the candle. When you use two candles, look in the space between the flames of both candles. The best distance is between six and eight inches apart. In either case you will better be able "to grasp the arrow with the look of your eyes." As a practice, you may use only ONE candle for you Runeing, where it can serve as an added focus. Engrave the Rune in the candle. Practice the following way: 1. Put your candle on the altar, or table. 2. Establish your outer and inner Rune Realms. For murmuring practice alone, the inner Rune Realm is sufficient. 3. Light the candle and say: "Forces of the Light Eternal in the universe, Penetrate darkness! Sacred Flame, shine! Bring Light to the night! All around darkness All around night I amidst the Light
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Darkness is merged With the Light! Original fire of FA Burning since the beginning Of times Light Force of AR Born in the Sun At the beginning of the worlds Give Light to the seeker! 4. Be aware that there is an OUTER Rune Realm around you of which the candle is a focal point for the Rune which you practice. 5. Practice your Runeing. 6. Look into the flame of the candle, imagine that the Rune is in the halo that surrounds the flame. Then close your eyes and remain a few minutes in silent meditation. Wait for insights, feelings, visions, thoughts, etc. to emerge. As a variation, you may look into the flame of the candle. Soon, a halo of ca. 6 to 8 inches, sometimes more, will appear around the candle. Wait for visions that may appear around the candle. Wait for visions that may appear in the halo. This second method requires some practice. It is useful for developing clairvoyance. It also improves your dream life. 7. When you decide to end the practice, say: "Powers of . . . (name of Rune) Thank you for your energy Flow back to the Realms of Creation!" 8. Imagine, or visualize, the Rune energies grounding, flowing into the ground, as water flows down a drain, or seeps into sandy soil. 9. Extinguish the flame of the candle. 10. Write your experiences in your diary. Now, you have at your disposition a basic outline for many Rune rituals, useful for many purposes. For practice of healing with the Runes UR and THORN use two candles, on with UR engraved, and one with THORN engraved. Proceed as shown above, but do healing under point 5 (instead of Runeing).
OTHER UTENSILS
Candles are not the only utensil. There can be many more ceremonial items on an altar. In fact, when setting up and arranging ceremonial items, it is a good thing to follow your intuition concerning the symbolism involved while following some general guidelines. In the following, I am going to introduce you to some of the most important, or most common, features of a ceremonial. The ceremonial set up is very helpful, because it enables you to set up a plenum of energies within which Runic work is made easier. One of the most important sources of "raw energy" needed for the practice of energy transfer and triggering is emotional, or astral energy. This type energy is in general produced within the context of a good ceremonial setting. A group of people who take part in the ceremonial can be extremely helpful. It is very important here that all participants want to contribute to the ceremonial. Likewise it is important that all participants receive some benefit from the ceremonial. A powerful alternative is to produce this emotional, or etheric, energy technically. The device for this purpose is the orgone generator, or Welz Chi generator. Ask the KOR for further information on this exciting machine.
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As I pointed out before, ceremonial utensils are focal points for the more subtle, higher order energy components that are essential for the success of the ceremonial. When I speak of the "symbolic meaning" of a utensil, then I refer to the structures of the Higher Order Energy components that are connected with this specific utensil. The utensil establishes then a structural link ("psychic link") to the repective energy field. Another, very important, characteristic of utensils is the following. As the utensil is used on a regular basis, the transcendental energies (HOEC's or Higher Order Energy Complexes) attached to it increase (and modify to some degree) more and more. Very soon the utensil is capable of "functioning by itself" without the practitioner needing to be consciously aware of any of the utensil's inherent characteristics and functions. Thus, a dagger is no longer just a knife, but it is the instrument that gives the practitioner dominion over astral -- emotional -- energy complexes. The magician speaks of a thought form that is attached to the ceremonial utensil. The basic arrangement of all utensils will set your "machinery" or "central switch board" ready to function smoothly: it allows you to define energies of a higher order, to make them work for you, and to send them wherever you want to send them. An important factor, then, is to follow all instructions given in order to have the Runic energies and HOEC's (which will be created and/or modified by Runic energies) perform as you intended and to cause the desired results on whatever level(s) you projected them. In the following, I discuss some of the most important utensils that you can use in the ceremonial set up of Runic practice.
1. THE TEMPLE
The temple is your "workshop," or, better yet, your place from which you are triggering the HOEC's for specific purposes such as healing. It is the space within which you arrange all your tools, or machinery. It is your specific outer realm (outer Rune Realm) from which you reach every point of your universe. You may, in fact, see the temple as a symbol of your universe. As with any workplace, cleanliness enhances proper functioning. Since you are working with HOEC's, or "psychic energies," be aware that the temple needs also to be free from any kind of psychic debris or psychic pollution, otherwise the results of your practices may be negatively influenced. Many banishing rituals are designed to clean the temple from undesirable energies, so that psychic energies can be projected without undesirable interference. In Runic practice, you may use the Runes AR, IS and MAN to cleanse. Some students may not have a special room or space available for their temple. Although a specific assigned space for a temple has great advantages, it is not absolutely essential. Of course, you can practice Runes anywhere. You establish your temple by determining what space will serve as your temple, and by cleansing it from any undesirable psychic energy with AR, MAN, and IS every time before you begin to practice. You may define the boarder of the temple mentally or with a wand or dagger. Depending on the situation, you may chant mentally (yes, you CAN perform a fully valid ceremonial in the midst of a crowd, without anybody noticing what you are doing), or you may chant aloud while in the body positions of IS (grounding position), MAN, and AR.
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interfere with those HOEC's (Higher Order Energy Complexes) which you are going to trigger. This way, the circle serves not only as your personal protection from hostile HOEC's, but it also insures a clean functioning of your Rune Yoga practice. An ideal circle is formed by laying out all 18 Runes, which will then be in tune with your Inner Rune Realm. Have the sixteen Runes arranged on the periphery of your circle, starting with FA in the North, counter clockwise to YR, which will then be on the right side of FA. Have EH and GIBOR inside the circle, since those Runes symbolize the marriage of opposites and the universe of the symbolism. EH West and Gibor East just inside the outer circle of Runes. The diameter of the circle is dependent on the amount of people participating in the ceremonial, and of course, considerations of space.
3. THE ALTAR
The altar is the actual workplace, or your control panel. In more advanced practice, it can also serve as a point of manifestation for specific HOEC's, in which case you have to observe specific measures of protection or insulating methods. Being your control panel, it will contain utensils that connect with the specific structures of the universe and HOEC's with which you are going to work in your ceremonial. Therefore, the arrangement of utensils on the altar and the symbols used will vary according to the purpose(s) of your ceremonial. You will, however, notice some CFP (common functioning principle) on all arrangements of your altar. The size of the altar depends on the number of people attending, size of your temple, amount of utensils, etc. For most individual purposes and for small groups, an altar the size of 24 x 30 inches will be adequate.
4. RUNE STAVES
Since you will use Runic energies, a set of triggers to those energies on top of the altar is of utmost importance. These Rune staves will be arranged in a circle, as shown in the diagram. More than the staves around yourself and the altar, the staves on the altar are triggers that connect with your Inner Rune Realm and the Runic Realms of Creation. Practical experience has established that a circle of Crystal Rune Staves by itself can give a clean temple and the protective circle as outlined above. However, I still recommend that you practice the banishing and cleansing as well as the establishing of the protective circle wherever possible. You may use Runes made of cardboard and charged accordingly, or you may use Runes made of wood. Crystal Runes are excellent and superior even to the traditional wooden Runes for several reasons. One of the reasons is that the crystalline structure of quartz represents HAGAL, and the "mother" of the Runic symbolism (the hexagon with the three inscribed diameters). Look at an ideally formed Quartz crystal from above and you see the HAGAL Rune inside a hexagon. Another reason for the awesome strength of crystal Runes lies in the fact that crystal energies can be modified and directed: modified by Runic energies that are very kin to the crystalline energies, and directed by means of gridding. All practitioners who used crystal Runes (and compared to wood) noticed the difference in power immediately! Available from the KOR: a. A deck of eighteen Rune cards that may also be used for divination purposes. These cards have ONLY the Rune on it. "Neat" pictures of Elves, Gods, Goddesses, and other artistic clutter would water down the energy of the Runes. 2. Wooden Rune Staves, and 3. Crystal Rune Staves.
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the will of the practitioner. It is your tool to dominate the HOEC's that have characteristics belonging to the mental spheres. The symbolic meanings of the power rod or wand will be the more familiar to you the more you practice with Runes and other ceremonials.
7. THE DAGGER
The dagger (or sword) represents your mind which controls the emotions and HOEC's that belong to the astral spheres. Again, while the incense tunes into mental worlds, the dagger uses mental energies.
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imagination. Be aware that the more you practice using Thor's Hammer the more skillful you will become in its use. In fact, RUNE YOGA TEACHES YOU THE SKILL OF PROJECTING AND USING THE HAMMER OF THOR! Ideally, your Hammer of Thor should be a true talisman, which you can wear as a pendant. You may use a piece of paper with Thor's Hammer drawn on it.
FA I know the Songs that no wise woman knows And none of the children of men. The first Song is HELP, and help it will Against sorrow, hurt, and any distress.
UR A second I know; quite useful to the children of men Who practice the healing hand: It chases disease and all pain, It cures hurts and all wounds.
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THORN A third Song I know: If urgency tells me To tie the opponent with magic Then I dullen the steel of my foes So that their swords will not cut anymore.
OS A fourth Song I know: If an enemy puts A tie of pliable limbs; Then I speak the spell, the shackles break on the feet And the fetters break on the hands.
RIT This I know as a fifth: If in hostile flight An arrow shoots into the crowd; Not matter how it threatens, I block its force By grasping it tightly with the look of my eyes.
KA A sixth on is mine: Should a warrior hurt me With the roots of soft wood; This warrior who awakens the hate within me Shall be struck before it gets me.
HAGAL A seventh I know: If the hall blazes high in flames Above all the people; No matter how it burns, I still save them all. The Magic I know to perform.
NOD An eighth one is mine: quite useful to hear For all the people in danger and need. Where hate should arise between man and man I settle it fast.
IS A ninth one I know: I danger is out in the sea To protect my dear ship I conjure the wind on the billowing floods An I sing into slumber the sea.
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AR A tenth one I know: When ill wishing spirits Fligh high in the air; I cause them to turn around Back to their homes, deprived of their covers; Back to their roots, bewildered their minds.
SIG This I know as eleventh: Then I Lead Into battle the friend, the beloved; I sing it into his shield, so he will win in battle And luck around him everywhere.
TYR A twelfth one I know: If I see the hanged man On the tree, shaking in the wind Then I scratch and I stain Runes The warrior can talk and descends from the tree.
BAR A thirteenth I name: If I wetten the Son With holy water When he is facing the foes he cannot perish And no blade can strike him into the dust.
LAF A fourteenth I sing to all the assembled people When I name the Divine names; For nobody knows the characters of Albs And of all Ases as well as I do.
MAN A fifteenth I count: That which Volkrast, the gnome Sang by the gates of the day; To strength for the Ases, and to force for the Albs, And to clear my own senses.
YR A sixteenth I know: If from wise maiden I desire joy of love Then I change the intent of the maiden And I turn her feeling around.
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EH A seventeenth I know: To join together two lives In love through wise law; Both are willing, and no one will lightly part after this.
GIBOR An eighteenth I learned, but I would not let this Know a just anyone else; for the best Everyone keeps for himself. That which leads to the end of the songs. The one only knows who is in my arms as my only lover. Obviously the nature of the eighteen stanzas is such that the understanding student will notice immediately that books could be written about the hidden, or esoteric, meaning of those stanzas. To achieve a maximum understanding of the 18 Rune Stanzas, you need to open up to their symbolic contents, plus their evocative meanings. This opening up will happen with practice of the Runes. Needless to say: the more you practice the more of the deep symbolic meanings of the Magical Poem will be revealed to you. ACCESS-KEYWORDS, MEANINGS AND CORRELATIONS OF THE RUNES I S through T Y R
The Rune IS
Rune of the ego, of self-discipline, of discipline. Rune of the personality, of the magical powers of selfconsciousness. Symbolizes will, action, power, and personality. The ego in the microcosm, the ONEness that connects everything created to ONE. The eternal Divine Love that transcends the lower ego. The Rune of completion. The unicorn, the magic wand, the number of the Moon. Uses: IS strengthen the personality (ship) by calming emotionally charged thoughts (the wind on the billowing floods), controls thoughts. IS procures psychic powers through self-discipline and through elimination of that which is unnecessary. IS leads to Divine Magic. Time of the year: June 21 through July 14. #9 Mantra: iiiiiisssssss,iiiisssssiiiissss.
The Rune AR
Rune of the Light, of the Sun. Wisdom, beauty, virtue, trust, honor, fame. Rune of the initiate. Symbolism of the Solar child that returns home from darkness. Uses: AR allows control of subconscious thought patterns and recognizes their point of origin, or roots (meditate on the stanza!). Rune of reframing. Brings change from within. Rune of certainty that dissolves doubts. AR attracts Solar prana. Time of the year: July 15 through August 7. #10 Mantra: aaaaaaaaaarrrrrr, rrrrraaaaaaaa
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KA brings you new responsibilities, new powers, and new potentials. Your capability is result of your practices where you learned to relax, to control your breath, to visualize, to establish your Rune Realms, and to establish vibratory fields that assist you in directing thought forms and to change karmic trends.
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Runes, you are entitled to enlarge your power base by forming a circle of people practicing Runes which meets regularly for study and practice: a CASTLE. With this larger power base your progress will be much swifter and the results of all Runic practice will be stronger. Later, when other persons in your castle will be knighted, this power base still increases, Rune energies may be mutually exchanged, and consequently all members will increase their strength and capabilities. With this larger power base, your contribution to world peace, world harmony, and redemption of this planet can be helped significantly, which will be beneficial to your own karma as well as to the karma of those Knights who are part of the castle. There is much more to the idea of the CASTLE than can be said here, much more that any materialistic oriented science could attempt to tell, and much more than mere symbolism of ancient chivalry could reveal. You will find out as you progress on your direct path to Oneness with your Higher Self. The active castle is the smallest unit of the Order, it is its smallest group. As such, it is of great importance. Let's explain here what we mean when we say "active castle": The castle of a Knight or Rune Master are all persons who were sponsored by this Knight or Rune Master. This relationship which was established by sponsoring remains, even when at a later date the sponsored persons will have his or her own castle, or join another castle for practice, and ascends in the hierarchy of the Order. The active castle, on the other hand, are all persons who actively participate in work, studies, and ceremonials of a castle. Should the original founder(s) of a castle be no longer active in this castle, then the next person in line will head the castle. However, the original founder will still enjoy spiritual benefits of the power base of his or her castle. There are more subtle, more esoteric, aspects to the castle, which you will learn later. For the moment, it is important that you are entitled to start your castle as soon as you are a Knight. Now, you are ready to practice and lead group ceremonials to harness Rune energies for whatever purpose you determine.
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7. If you are member of a castle, or lodge, make arrangements with them for your initiation. Otherwise, you will perform the ceremony by yourself. For the Knighting ceremony, you need: 1. 6 candles, in each of which you engrave one Rune starting from FA to KA. 2. An incense burner. 3. Frankincense, or special incense for Runic ceremonials. 4. A white tablecloth. 5. Your book of ceremonials. 6. A cup of water, and a dish with bread. Before you begin the ceremony, you bless the water as follows: Enter your inner Rune Realm, meditate, project the energy of the Rune KA into the water. Project for about one minute. Prepare the bread in the same manner. Now, you are ready for the ceremony. First, arrange your table of this altar, or if you have already a special altar for Rune work, use it. Set incense, candles, bread, and wine on the table. Have the candles arranged in the shape of a hexagon. Be sure you are in a quiet, meditative mood. Also, make sure not to be interrupted during the ceremony. If you write your Rune Master beforehand, he or she may tune into your ceremony. Visualize yourself clean from all distractions. A bath before the ceremony may help as a symbolic cleansing away of everything which does not belong into the ceremony.
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Position of MAN, sing MAN three times. Now, light the candles, then say: "Power of the Light Eternal in the Universe Penetrate darkness. Sacred flame, shine! Bring Light into darkness. Around darkness, around night, Darkness has merged with the Light. Original fire of FA, Burning since the beginning of times; Light force of AR, Born of the Sun At the beginning of the worlds, Give Light to the seeker!" Now, light the incense. Then drink the wine. Next, establish your inner Rune Realm, meditate on KA within your inner Rune Realm, at least two minutes. Then, eat the bread and repeat the meditation. Speak the following commitment ONLY if you sincerely intend to stride the path of Oneness with the Divine: "I am aware that I am accepted as a member of the Order of the Knights of Runes. This is my first initiation in the hierarchy of this planet. This initiation gives me powers, capabilities, rights, and responsibilities. I am aware of my responsibilities as a Knight of Runes. As a Knight, I am in touch with my Higher Self, I am in touch with the Divine. My Higher Self and my Divine nature become more and more manifest in me. More and more I become a clear channel of the Divine. I am aware that, as a Knight of Runes, I am striding the direct path to my Higher Self, which is the path to the Holy Grail, the path to Christ within, the path to Christ consciousness, the path to myself as a King Magician. As a Knight, I am in service of the King Magician which I am. I am aware of the old symbolism of the King: The King is the symbol representing my Higher Self, the King is the symbol of my Divinity. I am aware of the Divine spark within myself this everlasting flame shines on my path to my goal of being ONE with the Divine. This initiation to Knighthood means responsibility for me. Responsibility to myself, responsibility to my fellow human beings whom I help against their foes of destiny and whom I help find their path to the Divine. Responsibility to the planet on which I am living. Responsibility to the Time-less, Age-less, Brotherhood of Rune Masters, or which I am part soon.
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I am committed to learn to serve, and to help." Now, you meditate for about five minutes, being in touch with your inner Rune Realm. Then proceed: "May the power of the Runes Be the source of my reshaping Of my destiny responsibly. May the power of the Runes Lead me on my direct path To my Higher Self. May the power of the Runes Help me work actively For a better destiny of my planet. May the power of the Runes Help me contribute to establishing A prosperous New Age on this planet Where there is one unified Homeland of mankind On the throne of which Divine Spirit, Divine Wisdom, And Divine Love are ruling. "From now on out, I am capable of using the tools of the workshop of creation wisely and responsibly. "As a Knight, I am aware that the work of Knights and Rune Masters will be decisive for the destiny of our planet. As a Knight, I am spreading the opportunity to participate in the very act of creation to all people who are ready, willing, and worthy. As a Knight, I am committed to help those who are in need of help, spiritually and materially. As a Knight, I am a leader to those who strive toward achieving spiritual Knighthood and mastery of the Runes. I am a good example and pillar of support for those persons." Now, extinguish the candles and incense. Then proceed: "Thank you, exalted forces, for accepting me as a Knight." Be aware that the Runic energies flow back to their origin. This is the end of your initiation ceremonial.
WELCOME TO YOU AS A NEW KNIGHT! PREVIEW FOR THE NEXT LESSON: HAGAL
1. HAGAL, the World Crystal. 2. Method to transfer Runic energies. 3. Ceremonial to draw and project Runic energies
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female-watery. HAGAL unifies the two, center and periphery, into an ever-present balance of phenomena that emanate from the world-crystal. Understanding of this relation between these three Runes is one of the keys to your chakras. HAGAL is the Rune of the tree of life. It symbolizes the union of several couples of Runes. First EH and NOD, then YR and MAN, and finally AR-KA (the couple that generates EH) with NOD. HAGAL is the Rune that can bring you in contact with your spiritual guide, with guidance, or with the Higher Self. It symbolizes the union of fire with water, of spirit with matter, of creation with chaos, of tree with root. HAGAL is always ready to reach out for a still higher union: the unification with your Higher Self and awareness, full awareness, and presence, conscious presence, of the Divine spark within you. HAGAL is the Rune of atonement of karmic debts. This is so, because there are no longer karmic restrictions once unification, or spirit-matter, are conscious. With HAGAL you reach out by means of union. Experience HAGAL in a ceremonial setting -- as described in the lesson RIT -- and you will gain significant insights that will lead you to a very important breakthrough.
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We strongly suggest that you follow the exact procedure of transfer of Rune energies. Later, as a Rune Master, you may create your own ways and ceremonials to project Runes. The following methods have been proven to be very effective. Even complete newcomers are capable of FEELING Runic energies most of the time, provided they truly open up to them. You will FEEL the flow of Runic streams. Later, you will be capable of actually seeing those energies, provided you follow our instructions. Consequently your control of those energies will increase dramatically as will your skill of transferring them and of selecting the correct Runes for every specific purpose.
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The only furniture allowed inside the circle is the little altar (a small card table may suffice), chairs, pillows, blankets, or whatever else is desirable for the comfort of the participants. Needless to say, cigarette smoke does not belong in the room where transfer of Runic energies is performed, especially when for healing! Once you determined the outline of the circle, you begin to lay out the Runes. Start at the left side of the North point of the circle (Ideally North) with FA, go around counterclockwise -- like the zodiac -- and end with GIBOR. As an option, the altar may be placed at the center of the circle. With the 18 Runes around you, you have set up an energy field with all its component shades and colors. From this field you can draw at will. It is the Runic symbolism at work. Now, each Rune that you draw contains this symbolism and it will work in tune with the Runic symbolism as a whole. This circle is your temple. Next, you charge the Runes of the circle. With this action, you raise the power potential of the circle. You can charge the Runes in several ways. You will learn these methods in the course of your studies. For now, we teach you one method. You proceed as follows: With a magical wand, your index finger, or a power rod, you point at FA. Sing the mantra of the Rune, then mentally project energy into the Rune Stave of FA, then sing the stanza of FA of the magical poem: "I know the songs . . . " Proceed like this with every Rune, until you reach YR, the EH and GIBOR. Charging the outer Rune Realm can be done by more than one person. In this case, the celebrating Knight would point at the Rune and charge it, another Knight will recite the appropriate stanza, while all others chant the mantra of the Rune. Now, the outer Rune realm is established. Every person who enters the circle at a later time, has to tune into this outer Rune Realm. This is done by either looking at each Rune, or by pointing at it, chanting mentally the mantra of the Rune. Beginners may be assisted by Knights or Rune Masters.
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You should be aware that your inner Rune Realm is in constant contact with the outer Rune Realm and that both are linked to the Rune Realms of Creation. Imagine and visualize this with all your strength. This way you create a powerful flow of Runic energies.
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL FORCE FIELD FOR DRAWING AND PROJECTING OF RUNIC ENERGIES
This following practice needs only be performed by persons who are going to project Runic energies. 1. Body Position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Chant the mantra of MAN Prayer: Power of MAN, release in me the power of the Divine. 2. Body Position of FA Look at the stave of FA Visualize FA Chant the mantra of FA Prayer: All Creating Power of FA which is born of the Divine Fire act through me and help me create! 3. Body Position of UR Look at the stave of UR Visualize UR Chant the mantra of UR Prayer: UR, Power of origin, Power of the Roots of all Beings, Increase my powers of healing and of being aware of the causes. 4. Body Position of THORN Look at the stave of THORN Visualize THORN Chant the mantra of THORN Prayer: Streams of cosmic energies are revolving within me. Cosmic energies radiate wherever I direct them responsibly. 5 Body Position of IS Look at the stave of IS Visualize IS Chant the mantra of IS Prayer: One with the Will of the universe, I am master of myself and master of my universe, filled with power and harmony. I am a radiating and forceful field of willpower. My will is ruler. 6 Body Position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Chant the mantra of MAN Prayer: Cosmic powers of Creation stream to me. 7. Body Position of HAGAL
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Look at the stave of HAGAL Visualize HAGAL Chant the mantra of HAGAL Prayer: Cosmic powers of Creation stream to me. 8. Body Position of IS (arms down) Look at the stave of IS Visualize IS Chant the mantra of IS Prayer: Cosmic powers of Creation stream to me. 9. Body Position of IS (arms up) Look at the stave of IS Visualize IS Chant the mantra of IS Prayer: Self-Aware, I am antenna. I am drawing energies and power from the original realms of creation. 10. Body Position of UR Look at the stave of UR Visualize UR Chant the mantra of UR Prayer: I draw the power from the deepest depths; I draw from the spheres of the Earth; I draw from the realms of Origin-Eternal; I draw from the roots of All-Mother. 11. Body Position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Chant the mantra of MAN Prayer: Self-Aware I draw the power from the highest heights, I draw from cosmic realms, I draw from the spiritual realms of All-Father.
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Odic energy, which is projected, is a wholeness of spiritual, astral, mental, and etheric Light. This Light is dynamized by one or more Runes, which then give it its specific color, shade, and effect. In general, you draw the Odic energy with one hand, and then you project it to the other person with your other hand. When drawing, see or feel with your strongest possible imagination the energy of a specific Rune, or Odic energy, flow into your body through the hand that poses the rune. In general you draw while inhaling. While inhaling and drawing, mentally chant the Rune Mantra. When projecting, see or feel with your strongest possible imagination the Rune energy flow through the projecting hand in the other person, or into the part of the body the other person where you intend to direct Odic energy. I recommend to begin your projecting with the Rune Fa into the center between the eyebrows of the receiving person (the third eye, or ajna chakra). Besides strengthening on all levels, this method also helps develop the third eye and it leads to development of psychic abilities that are connected with the awakening of the chakras. This method also helps purify chakras and to balance them, especially the chakras in which much of our karma is stored. Later, you may project other Runes through the Ajna chakra. You proceed as follows: First chant the Rune aloud. Repeat three times. Then point your right (or left) hand toward the eye chakra. Either project with your palm or, better yet, with the fingers in focus. In either case, keep a distance of three to six inches from the point to which you project. The other hand should be lifted up. It acts as an antenna that draws the Runic energies. The hand position of the Rune will enhance the draw. Feel the energies flow through this hand and arm into your body, from there into your other arm, hand, and then into the other person. While inhaling, mentally chant the mantra of the Rune and imagine the energies flow into your body. While exhaling, imagine those energies flow through your other hand into the third eye of your partner. Proceed this way approximately for five minutes. Then proceed in the same manner pointing at the heart chakra, then Solar plexus, three to five minutes each. If you intend to heal, then draw and project the Rune UR (hand position) upon whatever part of the body which you want to benefit from Runic energies. Especially the kidneys are very receptive to this special kind of purification. In a later lesson, you will learn to use Runes for purification and strengthening of the aura. This special process requires the knowledge of using magnetic passes.
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2. Murmur the Song of HAGAL 3. Practice HAGAL meditatively 4. Practice transfer of energy, if you have the opportunity.
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"An eighth one is mine, quite useful to hear For all the people in danger and need. Where hate should arise from man against man This I settle fast! The symbolism of the stanza of NOD points out that NOD is the Rune of karma, of karmic need and of karmic debt. With NOD you will be capable of recognizing karma by viewing it from the creative realms. It is evident that such a perspective leads to the skill to overcome karma. The power of NOD is a very profound one. It takes a high stage of your personal evolution to have to power of overcoming karma and of setting actually determining your karma. In the mythology of the Atlantean North NOD is one of the Runes of the Norns. The Norns are goddesses who are spinning the threads of destiny, or karma. To be capable of working with NOD means to be capable of evoking the Norns. To be capable of such an operation, the Rune Master needs to have gained a thorough understanding of what karma means. Otherwise such an evocation will invariably cause problems. The Rune Master will gain this understanding by acquiring an appropriate mapping, or insight, of TIME in which DESTINY is EMBEDDED. NOD allows you to gain an understanding of destiny and of time. Therefore NOD helps you to gain access to the realms of the Norns. To try to gain access to the realms of the Norns before you have gained the necessary understanding of NOD may bring some serious problems. In most cases, though, the Norns will smilingly forgive the person who tries to approach them unprepared. However, if such approach is attempted with negative, or unethical, attitude, then whatever the operator projects will inevitable backlash against him or her in karmic determinism and structuring. At your present state of evolution, NOD allows you to recognize the reasons for your present karma. Consequently you will be able to work with it and eventually overcome it. NOD will give you memories of events that shaped your karma, present and past lives. It will give you insights in events that were significant for the shaping of your present karma. NOD also can help you overcome bad karma and change your destiny for the better. At this stage, NOD is likely to help you accept your present karma and to make the best of it. Read and murmur the Song of NOD to understand. In addition, set up meditation practices with NOD in a ceremonial setting. It is appropriate for this lesson to practice the following rituals that will change your destiny toward the better. You may use these rituals to help others.
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O my willpower Change all problems. You, my karmic necessity, Because of you, Thanks to you, I am growing Beyond misery and death." 6. Body position of NOD-cross Look at the stave of NOD Visualize NOD Chant the mantra of NOD Prayer: "Calling in need, Screaming, Brethren of Hermes, I beg you! Be advisors, Be Helpers, To me, Who I am erring And searching! Aepandi Nam Brethren in the universe, Be of assistance to me, Turn around misery!" (If you perform the ritual for someone else, substitute "me" with name of the person whom you help.) 7. Body position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Chant the mantra of MAN Prayer: "Ma, original word of plenty, Be grantor of my requests Be increase of that Which is due to me Spiritually and materially." 7. Body position of SIG Look at the stave of SIG Visualize SIG Chant the mantra of SIG Prayer: "Creator-Spirit Dwelling within Be victorious." End the ritual as described in L.o.I. of Hagal.
RITUAL OF SUCCESS
To begin, proceed as in previous ritual: Outer Rune Realm, Inner Rune Realm, individual force field. 1. Body position of NOD
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Look at the stave of NOD Visualize NOD Chant the mantra of NOD Prayer: Rune of the Norn Dissolve karmic ties Change bad luck!" 2. Body position of BAR Look at the stave of BAR Visualize BAR Chant the mantra of BAR Prayer: "New life sprouts Through the birth-giving Powers of the Rune BAR" 3. Body position of FA Look at the stave of FA Visualize FA Chant the mantra of FA Prayer: "Grow, Thrive, With the power of FA!" 4. Body position of SIG Look at the stave of SIG Visualize SIG Chant the mantra of SIG Prayer: "The power within myself Is victorious. The all victorious Power of SIG Leads me From success to success." 5. Body position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Chant the mantra of MAN Prayer: "MA, original word Of plenty Be grantor of my requests Be increaser of that Which is truly mine." 6. Body position of BAR Look at the stave of BAR Visualize BAR Chant the mantra of BAR Prayer: The blessings of BAR Fend off blind coincidences Fend off evil forces! Shielded by BAR I enjoy the fruits Of my requests."
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7. Body position of AR Look at the stave of AR Visualize AR Chant the mantra of AR Prayer: "Completion and success Brought forth by the Divine power of the Sun." 8. Body position of TYR Look at the stave of TYR Visualize TYR Chant the mantra of TYR Prayer: "TYR-TYR, TYR-TYR, TYR-TYR Wealth increases Bliss grows The fruit of combat Is victory!" End the ritual as described in HAGAL. Ground surplus energies. The preceding rituals have the following key: NOD gives awareness of karma, or it brings you in contact with your karmic background. BAR gives new direction of karma, like being born again into another time-line. FA is at the beginning of this new venture. It draws the fire of the beginning. SIG provides you with the attitude of a victorious person. MAN brings you in touch with your Higher Self, which transcend karma-subjected space-time. BAR again solidifies the new birth into another line of karma, which is to be a line of success. AR causes the necessary reframing of your personality, so you have the tools to succeed. TYR gives success without your attachment to it.
EXERCISES,
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Copy the Song of NOD in your book of ceremonials, if time allows. Murmur the Song of NOD in a ceremonial setting. Practice the Rune NOD and meditate. Practice the rituals described above.
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Time of the year: November 8 through November 29 #15 Correlation with the Tarot: 15th card: The Devil. Mantra: mmmmmmaaaaaaaannnnnn, aaooouuummmmmm huuummmmmm
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The Rune YR
Rune of the unio mystica. Desire for completion, and perfection. Rune of the night and of the Moon. Rune of karma and of karmic tests. The counterpart of MAN, the god with antlers. Roots of the world tree, from which life springs ("the mighty tree which conceals man, where man grew from the roots . . .") God in the waters at the winter solstice. God descending to the material world. Uses: YR overcomes illusion of the material world, which is often a painful process bringing radical changes, and a sudden overturning of affairs. Overcomes the illusions of neuro-semantic environments. It recognizes mappings as mappings. Time of the year: November 30 through December 21. #16 Correlation with the Tarot: The 16th card: The Citadel, Lightning. Mantra: yyyyyyyyrrrrrr
The Rune EH
Rune of cosmic union, which transcends the 16 Runes of the zodiac, or the octagon with its polarities. It is the Rune of ideal love, of twin souls, of soul mates. Two in one, Soul and cosmic. God and man. Uses: Connects two lives, brings from the Two to the One. Helps find the soul mate. Brings together soul twins. Brings success and increase. #17 No connection with the year, referring to polarities unified. Also no connection with the Tarot. Mantra: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh
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its fullest, and serving society much more effectively than he ever could have done with the ego that society so skillfully has distorted. The stanza of IS in the magical poem shows the way. It says there clearly: A ninth one is mine: If danger is out in the sea To protect my good ship I conjure the wind on the billowing floods And I sing into slumber the sea. This is a clear reference to the four elements that the hermit has to master so he or she can reach the goal of Oneness with the Higher Self. Being aware of the true ego is an important step toward this goal. The ship, being solid, refers to the material plane, the earth element, or consciousness. The wind is the mind, or the air element, while the floods refer to the emotions, or the water element. The billowing floods refer to emotions that are stirred up by thought that attaches itself to futile objects of the external world and to illusions. These illusions are the result of your identifying the mapping of your perception with the object itself. Consequently, you have lost the knowledge of the difference between your picture of the world and the world as it is. Such pictures are nothing but figments of your imagination and results of your mechanisms of abstraction which in turn are subject to the illusions of a distorted ego. The act of conjuring the wind is the act of using your will, the representative of the cosmic fire element. With this will, you learn to control your thoughts that are emotionally charged, and your emotions that are running wild as a result of your having your thinking attached to them. The practice of IS teaches you how to detach yourself from your emotionally charged thoughts, and to reach a standstill of your thoughts whenever you desire to do so. Such calmed down thoughts give you the control that is necessary for your reaching the realms of your true ego. You need not go out in the woods to be a hermit, of course. All it takes is practice. With the mastery of IS, you will find it easy to control Runic energies. Therefore, you can use IS to attract Runic energies and to ground them. When you attract Runic energies with IS you are an antenna of cosmic energies. When you ground them, you act as a grounding rod. The body positions for these two practices are accordingly. You have your arms stretched above the head when you draw cosmic energies. When you ground, your arms are hanging down on the sides of your body.
IMPORTANT!
Before I continue here, I need to point out a very important fact. The suggestions that follow reflect the opinions of Rune masters of the past and present. As you are well aware, in the US and its territories, any healing that is not sanctioned by the appropriate authorities is ineffective and does not exist. This seems also to include any type of medical healing that is still to be discovered before it will be sanctioned by the AMA and related bodies. Because of that, Runic healing may be considered as an auxiliary placebo and should never interfere with the officially sanctioned medical treatment.
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A true symbolism typically represents the universe or any part of it. The Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes represent the system of creative energies that act in the universe. Some of the manifestations of the creative energies that connect with the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes are the world crystal, the periodic system of chemical elements, and the natural zodiac of creative energies. This natural zodiac has 18 signs. Our body is a reflection of the universe. From this follows that the Eighteen Sacred Futhork Runes relate to the system of creative energies in our body. Since these correlations are easy to demonstrate, the eighteen sacred Futhork Runes lend themselves to chakra balancing, chakra awakening, and healing of the fields, or systems, of creative energies in our body.
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Crown FA, HAGAL, BAR Eye UR, KA, TYR, NOD, LAF, GIBOR Throat THORN, RIT, IS, SIG, MAN, EH Heart OS, AR, YR Solar Plexus THORN, RIT, IS, SIG, MAN, EH Spleen UR, KA, TYR, NOD, LAF, GIBOR Root FA, HAGAL, BAR You may proceed from the crown chakra to root chakra, or from root chakra to crown chakra. When mutual projecting of energy, take turns. If you are a group, several persons may project energy on one or several chakras of one person.
CONSCIOUS EATING
Just as the air you breathe contains energies that may be amplified, charged, and dynamized with Runic energies, so does food. Desires, or wishes, which are impressed in food, have a strong impact on the material and etheric planes. As a Rune Master, you will do well to consider this aspect of food, especially if you want to achieve things that have to do with the well being of your body, or if you have other material desires. The practice that is described in the following is very simple. Yet, it is consistent in its application that will ultimately lead to spectacular success. Practice with at least one meal per day. It will be good if you practice with wholesome food rather than with junk. In fact, the negative effects of junk food are well enough known, so that it will be of the best interest of the Rune Master to refrain from it all together. A healthy body is of importance for your overall progress and advancement and it is counterproductive to poison it with an average of five or more pounds of chemical food additives, "certified" colors, "safe" preservatives, fillers, and what not. (again a variation of the above disclaimer is valid: An additive that is
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approved by the FDA is safe until such time when the FDA decides that it is no longer safe!) You proceed as follows: 1. Sit down with your food in front of you. 2. Establish your inner Rune Realm. 3. Establish your outer Rune Realm by imagining the 18 Futhork Runes around yourself. Of course you may also actually put your Rune staves around yourself, which will give additional strength to the ceremonial effects of your practice. To establish your Rune Realm mentally allows you to practice while in the company of others. 4. Think of your wish which you want to become reality on the material levels. 5. Dynamize the wish with the appropriate Rune or Runes. 6. Draw the Rune (and attached wish) from you inner Rune Realm and project it into the food which you are going to eat. 7. When eating, be aware that the wish, and attached Rune(s), become part of yourself and of your universe, all the way down to the material levels. Be sure that nothing will be left over. You will, at a later date, understand the magical significance of this practice. Also, do not read during the meal, and any kind of conversation is undesirable, since you should eat only with your mind, emotions, consciousness, and will focused on your desire, or wish. Do not formulate two wishes at the same time. As an alternative, you may project Runic energy into your food the same way you learned to project energy in the lesson of HAGAL: by drawing and projecting with your hands, as a full Runic ceremonial. You may also arrange a magical meal with your group, proceeding as shown under the Rune HAGAL.
PRACTICE
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Water is an external manifestation of the element that bears its name: the water element. As such, it can serve to bring you in contact with everything that is ruled by this element: Emotions, the astral worlds, the magnetic fluid on the Etheric Plane (or Higher Material Plane), life force, the magnetic component of every plane. Water, with its magnetic characteristics, may be used as an accumulator of life force, or Odic energy. And, similar as you have read about impregnating food with a wish, so can you project an idea, or wish, into water. This idea is then dynamized by the life force, or Odic force, of water. Ideally, you charge
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the water with raw Odic force before you impregnate the magnetic/Odic energies with your wish. Those among you who are familiar with Orgone physics may use an Orgone generator (Welz chi generator) to charge water before you impregnate it with your wish. Otherwise, you may charge water simply by holding your hands above it and visualizing Odic energy flow from your palms into the water. After you have impregnated the water with your wish, you may drink it and "incorporate" your wish. This process is essentially the same as conscious eating. If you consider the magnetic characteristic of water, you will also understand the many rituals of washing hands and body before religious practices. Many religious systems have washing of the hands incorporated in their ritual. You may include such washing in your magical practices. Before you begin with the practice, wash your hands. While washing imagine that everything that burdens you, all impurities, etc., are washed off. Better yet, take a bath with the same imaginations.
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and the mind. Above the mental spheres, you find the spheres of will of the causal plane. This plane relates with to the fire element. This highest sphere, the causal plane, is also called world of emanation. Next, the mental sphere, is world of creation, then comes the world of formation, or astral, and finally, the conscious world of forms. To the "scientist" among you, I want to point out that, with the above, we have at our disposition a MAPPING of the world, which has proven to be USEFUL. For our practice, it is irrelevant whether this mapping is "true" or "false" according to academic logistics. We are only interested in the USEFULNESS of the mapping, which is its main criterion. We are, in our work, abstracting that which we experience on the objective, un-speakable, levels, and going to higher and higher levels of abstraction, we eventually develop theories, or mappings, which help us develop our metaphysical practices. If we reverse the path that we have taken, i.e. proceeding from the material world to the world of emanation, then we have a fairly good description of what is going on in metaphysical work: The world of emanation refers to the will which determines that something is to be done about a specific situation. The world of creation refers to the creative mind, which lays out practical ways of how to handle a specific situation, then, the astral, gives it shape by concentration of emotional forces, and finally, you have the material plane, where the change becomes manifest and conscious. An ancient and little known magical law says that, if you focus all four elements, namely will, mind, emotion, and consciousness upon one outcome, then this outcome is bound to happen. In the course of cosmic consciousness you can learn how to achieve such a focus with relative ease. To the Rune Master who sets up a ceremonial, the presence of the four elements (candle, incense, water or wine, and bread or some other symbolism of consciousness-matter-earth) is an important help. This is so because the presence of these utensils aligns the four elements without the Rune master needing to focus on it constantly. Be aware that with the consistent and repeated use of the same utensils or set-up of utensils the Rune Master develops the presence of specific metaphysical functions without him or her needing to tie up his or her mind to produce the effect. His or her mind/emotions/will/consciousness is then free for other things, and the effectiveness of the Rune practice is thus increased considerably.
AR
1. Copy the Song of AR in your Book of Ceremonials, if time allows. 2. Murmur the Song of AR. 3. At least two times, while murmuring, tune into the problematic of "ghosts of the past". Explore your past and use AR to dynamize change. 4. Practice magic of water: project energy into a glass of water (see HAGAL), then project AR into the water. Drink the water. 5. Practice hand and body positions of AR.
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4. Very important: Conscious full-breathing. Without proper control of breath, there is quite often no total success in Runic practice. Yet, that which is labeled "breathing" by most people, is generally nothing but a poor fragment of the breathing that should be practiced. Full breathing is composed of: a) Breathing with the diaphragm, visible in the movement of the abdomen. b) The middle breathing, where the ribcage is expanding, and c) The upper breathing, where by means of lifting the shoulders the last remaining space in the lung is filled. Full breathing combines all three ways of breathing. When inhaling, the body appears to expand in a wavelike movement, from below to the shoulders. When exhaling, this motion goes the other way. Full breathing is the basis of all existing healthful systems of breathing. You should practice this way of breathing in the position of SIE. Begin with a complete exhalation, and wait until the urge to inhale comes naturally. Next you follow some rhythm of breathing. When practicing, be sure to do so gently, and avoid strains at any cost. Be aware that gentle stimuli strengthen the life force, and very strong stimuli destroy the life force. Therefore, the gentler you train your body, the faster the desired results. Rhythms to practice: a) Inhalation: 5 seconds Hold breath: 1 second Exhalation: 5 seconds Wait for urge to inhale b) Inhalation: 4 seconds Hold: 2 seconds Exhalation: 4 seconds Pause: 2 seconds c) Inhalation: 5 seconds Hold: 3 seconds Exhalation: 7 seconds Pause: 3 seconds d) Inhalation: 3 seconds Hold: 7 seconds Exhalation: 4 seconds Pause until urge to inhale e) Inhalation: 4 seconds Hold: 16 seconds Exhalation: 8 seconds Pause until urge to inhale. Depending of goal and capability, you may extend the times of inhalation, hold, exhalation, and pause in their proper proportions. You may dynamize your breath with the imagination that you inhale Odic energies, or specific Runic energies. 5. Next preparation is to transform your body into a large vibratory field of Runic sounds. Only a good voice (speak up-front!) results in good resonance. Your voice should not appear as coming from the throat, palate, nose, or squeezed-out. Vowels should be formed up front. Practice the sounds of M, N, NG, by themselves and in connection with vowels. This practice will increase your feeling for sounds and your capability to make various parts of the body resonate with the sound. This is essential for Runic practice. 6. Thoughts are to be controlled. Observe only those thoughts that have to do with your Runic practice. Do not allow a playground for vagrant thought to unfold.
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7. The body needs to be trained so that it will stay in any Runic position for a while. When you are familiar with the practice of all of the above, then you are ready for more involved practice. If you have followed the exercises given in previous letters of instruction, you should not have much problem. Quite naturally, you may now ask: In what sequence should I practice Runes? This question is to be answered individually. Your Cycles of Runic energy are an important factor to consider, as well as your personal Runes. If, during your previous practices, you found one specific Rune to which you feel strong links, then you may begin every Runic practice with this Rune. You may also practice in the sequence of the FUTHORK. Whenever you are advanced to a degree where you tune into what Runes can tell you, then you will intuitively find out which sequence to use for what purpose.
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Purify your Aura (see Runic projection in letter of instructions of HAGAL), and rub your body with good oil. The oil may contain essential oils of herbs, which are in accordance with the goal(s) that you envision. Tune consciously into the vibrations of your Runic Realms, and connect the three Runic Realms. Then you may begin the action with drawing the Rune(s) that are most in tune with you. At the end of your ceremonial or practice you should visualize an enclosure (aura) of Odic energy around yourself. As an alternative you may pose the Rune MAN, and sing MAN. This brings you in tune with the spiritual symbolism of the Holy Grail. Never forget to ground surplus energy at the end of every ceremonial, ritual, or other Runic practice. When grounding, visualize IS, pose IS in grounding-position, and visualize all surplus energy flow through your body into the ground. You may also sing the Rune, beginning with the highest possible pitch and lowering the pitch more and more, all the you see the energy flow down your body, and into the ground. This practice prevents you from being overcharged after the ceremonial. Then practicing with a group, the group as a whole is to practice the grounding.
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They offered me neither bread nor wine So I bent down in search. I recognized the Runes; wailingly I grasped them. Until I sank down from the tree. Now I began to increase, to be wise, To grow and to feel well. From the word, word grew after word And deed shaped to deeds with deeds. Now I know the songs like no wise one knows And none of the children of men. And should these songs, o human child, be unlearnables to you for sheer endless time; Grasp them as you get hold of them, use them as you hear of them. Hail you if you retain them! Let's point out here: Odin hangs on the wind cold tree for nine icy nights. The wind refers to the mind. The nine to the Rune Is and so does the ice, frozen water. Remember the Rune Stanza of Is: A ninth one is mine, if danger is out in the sea ... Not only is Odin exposed to the elements outside him, but also within. Obviously the realm of a human being does not end with its skin. Odin is exposed to the elements on the world tree. He is exposed in an eternal cycle that can only be overcome when time itself has been recognized as being irrelevant. Odin has to sink down to the roots of time to recognize the Runes, forces of creation. Odin wounded himself with the spear. The human karma blinds humans. A misdirected will gives up an eye. Too much concern with karma that results from "past" (and future?!) lives may bring even more attachment to the material planes of the life tree and the shackles that bind to the tree become even stronger. Only by gaining access to the creative realms can Odin re-gain his Divine nature. Because Odin knows well that he will not handed redemption on a silver platter, but that the human being has to strive to attain Divinity, he bends down in search. This means that he focuses on the roots of all existence, symbolized by the tree and its roots. There he recognizes the energies from the creative realms, or roots: the Runes. He accepts them as a way of life. This is acceptance of karmic structure from a point that lies beyond karma itself. Once the karmic bondage is overcome, Odin can free himself from the tree. Now he is master of his destiny. To be capable of passing the initiation of TYR you should be well grounded in the inner and outer Rune realms. In previous lessons you should have practiced the basics of Runic ceremonial. It will be good if you do have a set of ceremonial utensils. You may delay the ceremonial of TYR to a later time. It is not an absolute requirement to pass this lesson. However you should have passed it before your initiation to Rune Master. If you have started your castle with regular meetings, the members of your castle may be a valuable assistance to your initiation.
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3, Runic incense, Frankincense, or Sandalwood 4. A cup or glass with wine or water. 5. An altar candle. 6. An altar. A simple table with a white cloth will do. 7. A rune dagger, power rod, or wand. A power rod is a metal pipe that is coated with Life energy accumulating material. You can order it from the Knights of Runes. 8. A set of Rune Staves, ideally Crystal Staves. 9. A personal candle inside the circle or square. 10. The tape to introduce you to the inner Rune realm. This is not necessary! The initiation of TYR takes some preparation and it takes some time. The energies with which you connect as a result of your initiation will be important for your further advance and understanding.
The Ceremonial of Initiation 1. Meditate briefly and connect with the Runic energies. 2. Light the altar candle Prayer: Powers of the Light Eternal in the Universe Penetrate Darkness!
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Sacred flame, shine! Bring Light to the Night! All around darkness All around night I (we) amidst the light Darkness has merged With the light. Position of FA Prayer: Original fire of FA Burning from the Roots of times! Position of AR Prayer: Light force of AR Born in the Sun At the roots Of the worlds Give light to the seeker! 3. Light Incense Prayer: May the power of the Runes Lead me to a better understanding Of the universe and myself 4. Tune into the Hammer of Thor and recognize it as your tool to project Rune energies. This time the projection is to reach inward. Be aware of this. Prayer: May the power of the Runes Act where I direct them responsibly. 5. Light the personal candle 6. In the four directions, beginning with North, going to West, South, East, draw the rune HAGAL with your wand, dagger, power rod, or finger. 7. Beginning with FA, point successively at each of the 18 Runes with the wand, dagger, or power rod. While pointing at a Rune, recite the appropriate stanza of the magical poem as you charge the Rune. 8. Establish your inner Rune realm 9. Slowly recite Odins Rune Song. Tune into the symbolic meaning of each stanza of the song. 10. Body Position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN
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Prayer: m-m-m-m-m-m-a-a-a -n-n Sacred MAN, inspire me! Sacred MAN, make me spiritual! Awaken Divine wisdom in me! Awaked Divine love in me! Meditate briefly before you continue with the next Rune. 11. Body posture of NOD Look at the stave of NOD Visualize NOD Sing: n-n-n-n-o-o-o-d-d Aware of karma Aware of mission Mine are the tools To be free from restrictions Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 12. Body posture of IS Look at the stave of IS Visualize IS Sing: i-i-i-i-i-s-s-s-s One with the will Of the universe I am master of myself And master of my universe Filled with power and harmony I am a radiating and strong Field of will energy My will is ruler Consciously I tune into The streams of original will Of the universe I am One with the will Of the universe. Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 13. Body posture of FA Look at the stave of FA Visualize FA Sing: f-f-f-f-f-a-a-a-a Original fire Secret, exalted, Force of the universe Kindle the Divine spark in me So that it becomes The Divine flame!
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The original power Of Divine action Streams through me. My consciousness expands Into the farthest corners Of the universe! Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 14. Body posture of AR Look at the stave of AR Visualize AR Sing: a-a-a-a-a-a-r-r-r-r-r Arahari, Solar spirit Lead me from darkness To the Self Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 15. Body posture of SIG Look at the stave of SIG Visualize SIG Sing: s-s-s-s-s-i-i-i-i-g-g-g SIGIL, victorious power Help me overcome The limitations of matter! Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 16. Body posture of TYR Look at the stave of TYR Visualize TYR Sing: t-t-t-t-t-t-y-y-y-y-y-y-r-r-r-r-r From body to body I went From life to death From death to life Through need and adversity Through myriads of changes And forms! Nothing can destroy me! I am longing for higher life And for purer existence I am longing for the Sun within. Eternal Now triumphs Over illusions that pass. Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune
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17. Body posture of SIG-TYR Sing: SIG-TYR, SIG-TYR, SIG-TYR! Remain in brief meditation before you continue with the next Rune 18. Chant Odins Rune Song slowly and attentively. Notice the difference from when you did so at the beginning of the ceremonial! 19. Drink the water (or wine). 20. Sing; Powers of the Runes Flow back to the creative realms! I thank you exalted forces For this experience! 21. Grounding posture of IS. Sing: i - i - i - i - i - s - s - s - s - s While you visualize the energies draining into the ground. 22. Extinguish the candles 23. Stay in meditation for another two to five minutes.
Exercises: 1. Copy the Song of TYR into your book of ceremonials 2. Practice the Song of TYR 3. Practice the hand posture of TYR, mentally singing TYR while you inhale. 4. Practice the body posture of TYR while singing TYR loudly. 5. Murmuring Odins Rune song several times, tune into its symbolic meanings.
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Therefore BAR is one of the primary Runes that you can use to enhance your psychic and magical powers. BAR helps you free yourself from the restrictions of time itself. This practice compares to the following: You may envision time like the map of a city. As long as you are in one of the streets of the city, you see something that lies before you and something that is behind you. At times you come to crossroads and you feel a need to choose. When you elevate yourself above the city you see that whole of it at once. You see what's behind, what's before, and the crossroads. With the Rune BAR you can elevate yourself beyond the confines of space-time into the eternal Now that shows you past, present, and the infinite mesh of timelines. The mathematician sees this mesh as a Gaussian ("curved") space. The Rune GIBOR and, even more so, the FYRFOS (fire foot) represent this structure of the eternal Now beautifully. BAR represents the eternal creative Now. It teaches us that the zero is not a nothing but that it may well be regarded as a balance of forces. Once you touch the equilibrium of this balance you create "out of nothing." Ancient mythologies saw in chaos the realm that contained everything and nothing. According to ancient mythology it is from chaos that the oldest gods come from. These mythologies recognized an important fact, namely that gods are created. They did not yet fall into the fallacy that postulates that some well-structured deity created the universe way in the past. However, having no valid concept of time, they usually put the emergence from chaos way back into the past rather than recognizing it as a continuous process that happens at the roots of time. Time is "created at all times," or time emerges continuously from roots that are ubiquitous as do many other phenomena. Some modern popphysicists call this state the "zero energy" or tachyonic energy. BAR opens us up to an important realm: the realm of the threshold of chaos where structure begins to emerge. In its most simplified meaning, BAR represents death and birth, day and night, life and light. It represents these things not as isolated but as an all encompassing unity. Structure in space-time is light energy, forming life relates to darkness and chaos. We are living beings in a structured universe of light. Here we have to refrain from attaching emotional values to the terms of light and life. Such misguided emotional values are the result of indoctrination by one sided patriarchalistic religion which by its nature is hostile to life. The structured universe by itself is an illusion. It gains reality when we connect it with life. Love brings life to the lifeless universe. With BAR you learn to see life as a whole from a point beyond. You perceive life in its wholeness that encompasses all its aspects. Therefore BAR is truly a Rune of birth as well as it is a Rune of death. Bar perceives the human being as a whole. It perceives the human form as a whole consisting of that which lives in the universe and that which exists in transition. BAR contains all aspects of creation. It contains life and death, sprouting and decomposition, time and time-lessness. The Higher Self manifests at the precise point where Chaos is touched. This is a truth that religionists will never grasp as long as they worship a personal male god who, structure himself, usually claims to "have created" the universe. The idea of a gaseous mammal of the male sex who lives above the clouds prevents us effectively from deeper insights into the workings of the universe. Our innermost being is also our outermost one. The depth of our life experience touches upon the farthest reaches of the structured universe that consciousness causes us to experience. The concepts of BAR reach far beyond any one of the concepts that organized religions can ever hope to offer. To benefit from these concepts is very simple. So simple indeed is the loving union of formative chaos and established form that it takes most of us decades, even lifetimes, to learn. Going back to chaotic experience is near impossible for the person who has been conditioned to perceive structures only, nothing but structures, and then still more structures and hierarchies of existence. Too many persons who try to gain knowledge of the universe do so in the typical Luciferian way of gaining more and more knowledge about it. They do not know the simple fact that, regardless how many formulas they create and how much they describe in terms of knowledge, there will always be characteristics left out. BAR teaches us the lesson that knowledge has to combine with the loving touch of the threshold of Chaos. Those persons who are unwilling to take the risk of simply letting go and immersing themselves into the female forces of formation and creation are the "living dead" in the meaning that Jesus gave to this word. Jesus himself "descended to hell," which means that he touched upon the chaotic threshold of creation before being born again in His resurrection. We have to let go of our cherished way of identifying with the maps of our experiences or, worse still, to identify with the maps that a collective subjectivity tries to indoctrinate us with. Bar teaches us that the root to our spiritual rebirth is within ourselves. The external form, or creed, that may lead to it is a help at best. It cannot do the job for us. BAR helps you in your descent into the underworlds. This descent is a metaphor for getting in tune with the threshold of creation. You find it in most religious systems. From this descent the shaman is born
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again. From this descent the founder of a world religion resurrects, giving the mythological example of what we have to do to reach Divinity. Descent to the underworld, eternal birth and transition, and eternal transformations are ideas of which most large religious systems can only give hints without understanding the deep realities that lie behind their pompous myths. The practitioner of evocative magic understands the touching of the creative reality as a descent to the mothers. Here we tend to experience the eternal creative life force as mother. It is a dangerous path for the magician who is incapable of letting go of cherished mappings. This is so because this descent confronts the magician with the formless, shapeless, and unstructured energetic ocean from which life comes forth in its manifold manifestations. Bar is the "womb" from which the phenomena that we experience are born and it is the grave to which they return. Time as we experience it is one of these perceived phenomena. Being of such a flexible nature, BAR will reveal many of its uses with practice and with practice only.
ROBES
Ceremonial magicians give much importance to the clothing that they wear. Of special significance is the color of the robe, sometimes the shape of the robe and especially the symbols that are attached to it. All of this reflects the ceremonial that the wearer of the robe intends to perform. Some practitioners, especially those who are part of the old religion, operate nude. They understand nudity as an expression of their freedom. Robes are magical utensils. When you use a magical utensil repeatedly you attach ideas, or energies, onto it. When you perform a ceremonial with such a "charged" utensil present you need no longer use your powers to bring in these energies that the utensil represents. The more routine the use of a specific energy or group of energies, the more useful is a utensil representing it. On the other hand it makes little sense to create a utensil that you use just once. When you use a utensil you can ensure that the energies the utensil represents are present. You can the focus your attention on more specific parts of the ritual that you perform. You can see utensils as part of a machinery on the spiritual levels that you have present to perform very specific tasks at each ritual. Robes are no exception to that. They take the aspect of magical utensils and so do a painted body and even nudity. Another function of a robe, of a painted body, or nudity, is equally important. A ceremonial operation requires to some extent that the practitioner gets rid of his/her limitations of the everyday world and enters another realm of existence. A cleansing ritual such as a ritual bath or fasting does that to some extent. With the robe, nude body or painted body the practitioner creates a new set of energies. This procedure then alters the practitioner's view of the universe. A new set of limitations is valid. More important still, the old limitations are no longer as strong as in everyday life. When the practitioner uses the robe, nudity, or body paint to be born into a realm that transcends everyday limitations, envisioned change becomes possible, even easy. In this respect, the wearing of a robe, nudity, or body paint connect with the Rune BAR. Perhaps you will understand this situation of being born into another realm better after you will have considered the following: Under "normal circumstances" you experience many limitations. Some limitations are good for you while others are blocking you. The average person tries to overcome some of the undesirable limitations such as psychological difficulties from within a state where these same limitations are active, i.e., from the normal waking state. Quite often their friendly neighborhood psychologist or counselor encourages to do so, for a hefty fee, of course. The person who makes such an attempt is confronted with a catch-22 situation that makes the task of overcoming a specific situation very difficult, if not impossible. On the other hand, when the person who desires change alters his/her consciousness, e.g., in a hypnotic state, a new set of limitations emerges. The strength of the limitations of the "normal state" is considerably reduced. Consequently change is possible, quite often even very easy, in such an altered state. If you develop the skill of changing between many different sets of limitations, or states of consciousness, you will have the tool of dynamically achieving nearly everything that you envision. The hypnotist is well aware of this fact and so is the preacher of a charismatic church. This points out the importance of a robe or of changed appearance after a ritual cleaning off the old
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limitations. The robe or nudity allows shift into new states of consciousness with alternate limitations without any long induction or introduction. The power of such a rebirth and the depth of the new state of consciousness is a result of the practitioner's own imagination and of the specific appearance of the robe and the surroundings that the practitioner builds for this purpose. The spiritual name that the practitioner may have is another such tool. It too relates to a state of rebirth. The same thing that we have said about robes or nudity applies to the spiritual name that the practitioner uses. Baptism and cleansing rituals belong to the realm of the Rune BAR. From this point the robe, nudity, or body paint emerge.
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material plane. Compare this way to the path that many a channeler takes, namely to let an astral entity enter his or her body (materialize) without knowing how to control it, without having the will to control it, often even without knowing its true name and without ever finding out the true name of that entity. There is more to that concept of the water. Water has a clear reference to the etheric level on the material plane where an entity manifests. This is life energy. Life energy has other names such as prana, chi, orgone, or animal magnetism. I have been able to photograph many entities when I supplied them with an adequate amount of life energy from the Chi generators that I invented. For these photographs I did not need a special camera, but a simple Polaroid camera was sufficient! This goes hand in hand with the Voodoo concept that you need to feed the entity that you have do the work. The feeding technique is always a way to set free sufficient amounts of life energy. The water of life, therefore, is the magnetic fluid on the etheric plane. This matter of a fine density has many names such as prana, chi, orgone, mana, and animal magnetism. The ancients clearly recognized that life emanates from prana. Wilhelm Reich brought scientific proof of this important fact. The same energy is also good for rejuvenation. Therefore the concept of the "fountain of youth" is not too far away from reality. However, closer examination of this energy proves that the famous fountain of youth is actually within ourselves. The orgone energy ocean that surrounds us is the inexhaustible source of life energy. To find the fountain of youth means to discover for ourselves the practices that help us harness life energies. This fountain of youth helps us keep in good shape throughout the period of our life.
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In each one of the planes, the Runes represent the least structured end. In the material plane they represent near-unstructured light and life energies. In the astral plane they represent near un-shaped astral beings, or emotions. In the mental plane Runes represent thoughts in the process of forming, and in the causal plane they represent the impulse in the process of forming. Runes are closest to the chaotic state. Other energies such as the zodiacal forces, gods, angels, etc., are much more defined. The Rune LAF takes a position that allows us to define the deities that we decide to call "by its name." Therefore LAF allows us to know the names of the Albes and Ases, of light beings and gods. LAF is true love that creates by interacting life energies (the water of life or the fountain of youth) with chaos.
About Evocation
An important part of the metaphysical process that leads to self actualization is the capability to use and direct the energies of the universe. This includes the conscious contact with the HOE's, deities, devas, genii, etc. These energies have the capability to appear as persons. This is why we perceive them as spirits. These energies, or spirits, are classified into hierarchies that reflect their action, their strength, and their importance in relation to us. There are many ways to classify these spirits. The earliest methods of this kind reflect in the many mythologies that humans have created. Each mythology connects with the reality of the worlds of entities, or energies of a higher order. Although all of the mythologies are very useful, we have to dismiss the claims of some of them that they are the only acceptable "truth." Such claims block the progress of the individual, which in some of the above cases is in the interest of the ruling classes that push one and one only mythology. Hierarchies, then, are models that we make to put some order into the many energies of a higher order. The entities result from our focus on specific ranges of these energies. Since they are models, we can custom tailor them to any mythology. Several excellent classifications, or hierarchies of entities, connects with the reality of astrological structures. These astrological hierarchies have all the marks of true symbolisms. This is so because in a true symbolism the position of each entity in relation to all other is of crucial importance: If you know the structure of a true symbolism and the meaning of one of its basic elements you can deduce the meanings of all other elements of the symbolism. The hierarchies that were derived from the astrological system are the cabalistic system and the system of spherical magic. The process of evoking an entity is the following: You zero-in on one specific spirit. You do this with the spirit's "name," symbol (sigil), etc. Then you give the command that the spirit manifests on the consciousmaterial plane. The spirit can only manifest if you give it the appropriate atmosphere, i.e., if you provide it with the material substance to materialize. This substance is life energy. LAF is the Rune that gives you the flexibility in choosing the appropriate hierarchy and spirit for your evocation. LAF gives you also the means to actually create an infinite amount of hierarchies of devas, angels, etc., that fit exactly your needs. This you find in the part of the stanza of LAF that says "for no one knows the names of all the Albes and Ases as well as I do!" To recognize and experience the structures and hierarchies of "divine" beings and their mutual relationships is theology. Theology is a Greek word that means knowledge of the gods. The skill to interact with these beings and to put them to work is theurgy, or the command over gods. The next step is to
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actually create these hierarchies. We call this process theogenesis. Theogenesis means the creation of gods. A prerequisite for successful theogenesis is a command over the forces of creation. The Runes are a set of creative energies that we can command. Theogenesis is at the root of the most powerful practices in metaphysical and magical work.
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Look closely at the stanza: A fifteenth I count, that which Volkrast the gnome Sang by the gates of the day To strength for the ashes, to force the Albs And to clear my own senses. The gnome refers to the fourth element: to consciousness. The gates of the day have a reference to the creation into humanity, the bursting into existence which springs forth from the roots of destiny, the Norns. MAN strengthens the determination to achieve spiritual Oneness, here symbolized by the Ases (or Aesir, the Nordic Gods), but it also helps overcome material limitations.
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MAN is the Rune of the human being who resurrects. It is the Rune of the god-man, of power, of Divine, spiritual, magic. MAN clears the perception and it opens the senses and perception. The mantra of MAN is ideal to awaken the third eye. The vibration of M and N, when sung properly, make the whole skull vibrate, and center upon the pineal gland and the area of the third eye. It not only cleanses, but it makes clairvoyant. It helps perceive the human worlds as well as the Divine worlds. It makes you grow beyond the tallest of the world trees. MAN can also give strength on the material planes, and it is, together with UR, IS and AR, used for experimentation with levitation and to lift heavy objects. MAN increases and gives wealth. When looking "downward" (or inward), then MAN opens up the secrets of MIMIR, or original memories that are seated in the Norns of YR. MAN helps explore YR the same way as YR helps explore MAN. Original memories are contained in the world-Crystal.
PRACTICE OF MAN
Practice of MAN is self-explanatory. It is Runic practice at its strongest impact, and strongest perceived. The body position of MAN protects against hostile influences, it keeps away dangerous psychic influences, and it strengthens the etheric hull of protection (Odic hull); and so does the symbol of MAN. It also helps achieve quiet, strength, and health. It awakens the understanding of many spiritual characteristics of the Runic symbolism, and provides inspiration by drawing the spiritual manifestation into the womb of destiny, represented by the Norns of YR. MAN contains a KEY to all other Runes and to the Runic symbolism as a whole. Especially Runic meditations with MAN will open up your understanding of the Runic symbolism. Therefore, it is useful to practice MAN while being within your inner Rune realm. An interesting practice with MAN may be an experiment with levitation, at its beginning, with making heavy objects appear lighter. Put both hands, right upon left hand, on a heavy object, sing the mantra of MAN, then withdraw hands and shake them, as if you were shaking out heaviness. Repeat three times. Then lift. The same experiment may be performed with people, where two (or four) persons lift a heavy person just with the index fingers. In this case, the hands of all participants are alternately laid upon the head of the subject, with the same procedure of chanting and shaking followed.
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you. Candle in the center of the circle. 2. Personal preparation: clean yourself, wear your robe, or clean clothes, or practice nude, according to your background. In any case, be in tune with the living universe. 3. Set up your outer Rune Realm. 4. Take Runes dagger, or power rod, trace Rune circle around you, then draw the HAGAL Rune in all four directions, beginning with North (position of FA Rune), next West, South, and East. Each time you draw the HAGAL Rune, do so with the strongest possible imagination of protection and Oneness with the Universe. 5. Light the altar candle and say: "Forces of the Light Eternal in the universe, Penetrate darkness! Sacred flame, shine! Bring light to the night! All around darkness All around night I amidst the Light Darkness is penetrated By the light. Light candle in center and say: Original fire of FA Burning from the roots Of times Light force of AR Born in the Sun At the roots of the worlds, Give Light to the seeker!" 6. Light incense and say: "May the power of the Runes Lead me to a greater understanding Of the universe and myself!" 7. Hold both hands over the cup with water (or wine which is thinned with water). Project the energies of MAN into the cup. Drink part of the water (or wine). 8. Look at Thor's Hammer. Be aware that this brings your consciousness in tune with the Rune MAN. Hold both hands over it, knowing of its power. 9. Body position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Sing: "mmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaannnnnn Rune of MAN Unfold within me
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The power of Divine Magic. Sacred MAN, inspire me Sacred MAN, make me spiritual Awaken in me Universal Wisdom, Universal Love. Sacred Man, Rune of spirit In original Light Man is One. 10. Sit down, keep eyes closed, remain in meditation for several minutes. From time to time, mentally chant MAN, while drawing its energies into yourself. or: Body position of MAN Look at the stave of MAN Visualize MAN Sing: mmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaannnnnn Symbol of ascent Crown of the world tree Symbol of mankind I am open To the influxus Of spiritual power And Odic energies Which pulsate In the universe. Many other meditations are possible here. 11. After your meditation, conclude the ritual by grounding the energies: Position of IS (grounding) Look at the stave of IS Visualize IS Sing: "iiiiiiiiiissssssssss Powers of MAN Thank you for your energies Flow back to the Realms of Creation." 12. Imagine, or visualize, the energies grounding, flowing into the ground, through your body, as water flows down a drain, or seeps into sandy soil. 13. Extinguish the candles and incense burner. 14. Write your experiences in your magical diary. 15. Remove all utensils.
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"ARAHARI, Solar spirit, lead me to you." SIG "Creative spirit will be victorious." "The Divine spark within me is victorious." TYR "Power of spirit will be victorious." "The Divine spark within me is victorious." TYR "Power of spirit rules matter. Eternal being triumphs over perishable illusions." "Tiu-Ziu, Hammer of Thor, Creative drive of Creative original force, always active, Will to create, within myself." BAR "Protected by BAR, I enjoy the fruits of my wishes." "A new life sprouts with the power of BAR." LAF "Learn to steer, then travel the seas." "LAF, Rune of initiation, give me the blessing of illumination." MAN "Sacred MAN, Rune of spirit, united with original Light, man is ONE." "MAN, original word or plenty, increase that which is mine." YR "Be aware of consciousness, be aware of matter, Be aware of the tree roots of the world tree." EH "The sacred powers of EH unites me with my YOU." "Cosmic Universal Love unites to ONE." GIBOR "Be ONE." "Descending from the Origin, GIBOR leads me back to YOU."
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represents the crown of the tree. YR also relates to the three Norns, goddesses who spin the threads of destiny (of consciously perceived destiny): Urda, the ever present, Verdandi, the ever becoming, and Skuld, karmic debt, or structure. YR, in the meaning of many Rune Masters, represents the illusion of matter. Again, here we deal with a bias that considers matter to be evil and women as evil. It's not matter per se that is to be considered an illusion, but human thinking which says all too often that our perception and labeling of our perception are the things that they describe. Such thinking limits the scope of our dealing with our environment and ultimately rigidifies us in that illusion. YR can be considered a Rune of mappings, or of theories which we make of our worlds. If we think that the theory is reality, then we have succumbed to illusion. If we take the theory as a tool, then we are flexible enough to change mappings whenever needed. Ultimately, it does not matter whether a theory is true or false (true or false according to what??? another theory??? biased "academic" standards that have a history of opposing useful innovations???), but whether it is useful. We have to keep in mind that the world that we perceive is result of processes of abstraction. Further abstracting leads to theories of some sort. The factual basis, which consists of things perceived, therefore has only limited validity. So do facts resulting from inferences. In their interactions with their environment, humans developed theories, based on some structural "metaphysics" of their thinking, regardless whether they deal with facts of a spiritual nature, or with "objective" scientific thought (or bias of academia). Objectivity appears as an illusionary subjectivity of a larger body of human beings, of masses, of a scientific body, of some religious group, etc. It changes continuously, as history proves will. Interesting enough, regardless of this continuous shift, many persons involved in seeking "truth," scientific, religious, or otherwise, think that what they have found NOW, or what was revealed or channeled to them LATELY, is the ultimate truth. All they need to do is look backwards in history in order to understand the continuous pattern of emergence of such illusion throughout history and the ultimate futility of such assumption. There is no factual basis known to me, from which you could not derive infinite many theories, or mappings, of the specific world (or set of phenomena) which make up this factual basis. Every lawyer could tell you that: You have a group of facts, you have hundreds of interpretations of those facts available, and what the lawyer tries to do is to convince judge and jury that his or here specific interpretation is the only true one. Most scientists try to do the same, but many of them are not aware, or refuse to be aware, that there are many more theories than the one they cherish. Most religious leaders are still very shortsighted in this respect -- usually because of vested interests! YR teaches you to create new and useful mappings according to your needs. YR does not condemns the material side, but it is fully aware of the importance of that which becomes conscious to us, and it is ready to enjoy the gifts of consciousness-matter, and to fulfill our wishes. Many Rune students of the past stumbled over the typically male-chauvinist content of the last stanzas of the magical poem, not realizing the deeper meaning in it. Their male chauvinism paralleled their denial of that which is "dirty matter," not realizing that this was a denial ultimately of that which is consciously perceived. The last three Runes are a special threshold to an initiation process which requires a tuning into what matter really means to us. The stanzas can bring a contact with those ideas on a subtle, subconscious level. Rune Masters who know history have not so much been caught by the entrapment of the the last three stanzas. They knew that the time when the present Runic lore was created was much less patriarchalistic than what the stanzas indicate. In fact, there have been just as many female shamans as there were male
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ones. Realizing that discrepancy, they immediately looked for the more hidden meanings in the stanzas, realizing that if this important step of balancing was not made, the resulting imbalance would jeopardize the path of the aspiring Rune Master.
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PRACTICE,
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1. Copy the Song of YR in your book of ceremonials. 2. Murmur the Song of YR regularly, once everyday or once every other day. 3. Practice as described above, at least three Runes of your choice.
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Letter of Instructions # 17
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Most of those who came to this point have practiced Runes in their past lives, and they are likely to use Runes responsibly to overcome their karmic restrictions. They are reaching a point, from which they are aware of karmic structuring, and they act accordingly. Doubts have ceded to exist in many respects. YR makes good use of that which becomes conscious: It maps it, forms useful theories, and uses those mappings to advance to the level of god-man. Going back to the myth that I have mentioned before: The gods feared the human being that used his/her full potential. An evolved human being knows that there is no need to worship energetic patterns. So they made the split into two sexes. This means nothing more and nothing less than that the gods polarized human beings and thus controlled human sexuality. Control of sexuality entails frustration, chronic sexual spasms and unhealthy sexual expression. This then can easily be directed into insecurity and worship of gaseous mammals above the clouds and invisible playmates! In its most unhygienic expression, natural sexual ecstasy finds its ersatz in religious ecstasy. I say unhygienic, because religious ecstasy brings excitement (most of the time not perceived as what it is -- a cheap surrogate with strong sexual overtones), but no release. EH combines, re-combines, the spiritual with the material-conscious. Idea (in the meaning which Plato gave it) becomes ONE with perception, without being a fallacious identity (words are NOT the things they describe). Again, while the stanza may point toward the re-unification of the two principles of man and woman in a mystical wedding, which can be performed at any interval in space-time desired, there is some meaning embedded which at first communicates itself sub-consciously. It is more a transcending of the attitude that considers unhealthy sexual relations being God-given or, worse, natural. EH relates to the hermaphrodite in the Tarot-deck ("the world") where the cosmic union of male and female principles within the individual is perfected. GIBOR, as we will experience, transcends "the world" of the cabalist and brings in the pantheistic notion (god-universe) unknown to most cabalists. To experience the realms of EH, it will be useful to meditate on EH, and to chant the Rune. This practice is good in a group. It is even better when practiced by a couple. As you come closer to being a Rune Master, it becomes more important to have group support. Since most of those who are our students either are leaders of groups (other than Runes) or are to become such leaders (not necessarily Runes), I strongly urge you to not only let people know of true unfettered love, but also to further it by all available means. EH brings the bonding of spirit-consciousness in true cosmic union. Now, I am including two very important rituals, which you can act out either in an esoteric way or in an exoteric way: These rituals are the magical calling of the "YOU" and the ritual of Gnostic wedding. You may perform these rituals to connect with the sister soul and to wed with the sister soul or to unify spirit and consciousness-matter. The attentive student will find additional suggestions between the lines, and may shape the ceremonials accordingly. Both rituals have strong sex-magical background.
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2. Proceed as outlined in "Candle magic with Runes." At point 8 (specific ceremonial) you proceed as indicated below: 3. Light petitioner's candle and say: This candle represents me. My spirit, determination and intentions are strong as this flame. I will do everything in my power to get in tune with the "YOU" and the powers of the Runes will be of my assistance in my action upon the levels of creation-eternal. 4. Light the candle of IS Body position of IS Look at the candle of IS Visualize IS Chant IS for one minute at least Prayer: Self-conscious I tune into The streams of original will In the universe. Vibrating in the force field Of the will of the worlds I am ONE with its will. 5. Light candle of LAF Body position of LAF Look at the candle of LAF Visualize LAF Chant LAF Prayer: Fulfill the desire for the YOU Give me the mate of my path To joint path of life. 6. Light candle of NOD Body position of NOD Look at the candle of NOD (flame) Visualize NOD Chant NOD Prayer: Aware of the original law of marriage I accept it with my free will Which allows me to overcome The karmic ties of NOD. 7. Light candle of EH Body position of EH Look at the candle of EH (flame) Visualize EH Prayer: Mate of my soul Connected to me through many lives Longingly I am calling you To wherever you may be The power of the Rune EH Will lead you to me.
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8. Light candle of GIBOR Body position of GIBOR Look at the candle of GIBOR Visualize GIBOR Chant GIBOR Prayer: With the power of GIBOR and GEA Part of my soul Enters my life You be my lover You be my twin In Gnostic marriage. 9. Light candle of HAGAL Body position of HAGAL Look at the candle of HAGAL Visualize HAGAL Chant HAGAL Prayer: HAGAL Wed receiving and giving Unite us forever With the power of All Love. Close as shown in point (9) in "Candle magic with Runes": "Powers of the Runes . . ."
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In love connected for life We strive toward joint goal. Nothing can separate us The unifying power of LAF protects us. 4. Light the candle of TYR Body position of TYR Look at the flame of TYR Visualize TYR one with the flame and with you and with the Hammer of Thor Chant TYR Prayer: Striving to become one No longer separated The creative powers Of the Hammer of THOR Unifies us. 5. Light candle of HAGAL Body position of HAGAL (either YR and MAN or EH and NOD, or both) Look at the flame of HAGAL Imagine being one with the flame and with the Rune HAGAL Chant HAGAL Prayer: HAGAL! Man and woman, woman and man, Unified: The crystal of the worlds. 6. Light the candle of EH Body position of EH Look at the flame of EH Imagine you being one with the flame and the Rune of EH Chant EH Prayer: Two worlds of life Two vibrations of self Two wills of ego Two souls unified In the law of eternity and marriage. (Position of connected EH) The great, sacred, union Happens with universal love. 7. Light the candle of GIBOR Body position of GIBOR Look at the flame of GIBOR Imagine you being one with the flame and the Rune of GIBOR Chant GIBOR Prayer: GIBOR and GEA GIBUR and GIFA Two forces, two souls Unify in Creation In cosmic-ecstatic joy.
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The Initiation
This letter of instruction concerns itself in the main with your initiation. Since this is a correspondence course, I am going to prepare you for a self initiation. If you do have the opportunity to be initiated by a
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Rune Master of the Knights of Runes, you should do so. If you have formed a castle, you can share the ceremony of your own initiation with members of the castle. Persons who practiced the eighteen lessons jointly may perform a joint initiation. In this case it is important that they join their outer as well as their inner Rune realms. In the following I am giving suggestions of how you set up your Rune realm for the initiation. If you followed well the lessons, You are aware, of course, that you may set up your realm following your own preferences.
Preparations
Do these preparations up to three days before you practice the ceremonial of initiation. 1. Bless the power rod (or dagger): Hold your hands above the power rod, chant one Rune after the other, and project the energy of each Rune into the power rod. 2. Bless the water or wine. Use your power rod and project with it energy into the water or wine. Chant all Runes, one after the other, and project their energies into the water or wine. 3. Bless the incense. Do this the same way as you did the water and power rod. 4. Charge the Hammer of Thor, again the same way, by projecting each of the eighteen Runes into it. 5. Lastly, bless each of the eighteen candles, one by one, by projecting the corresponding Rune into it.
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You are illumination. 13. Position of HAGAL -- Chant HAGAL Divinity Above all Beyond all Within all 14. Position of RIT -- Chant RIT (visualize oneness) All-ritual Reveals itself in ritual experience 15. Position of OTHIL -- Chant OTHIL Othil enacts spiritual well-being within myself. 16. Position of OS -- Chant OS Knowing of the power of OS I am receiver of the highest spiritual vibrations 17. Position of LAF -- Chant LAF LAF -- Rune of initiation Through LAF I receive the blessing of illumination I unifies with the Divine 18. Position of MAN -- Chant MAN Sacred MAN inspires me Sacred MAN makes me spiritual It awakens universal knowledge within myself It awakens universal love within myself 19. Position of AR -- Chant AR Arahari -- Solar spirit From darkness do I reach for you 20 Position of SIG -- Chant SIG SIGIL -- victorious power SIG helps overcome illusion of perception. 21. Position of THORN -- Chant THORN
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Birth and death Death and becoming Sacred power of Thorn Releases me From the wheel of eternal return It gives me the grace of spiritual rebirth 22. Position of IS -- Chant IS With the power of IS I am united forever With God-everything 23. Position of TYR -- Chant TYR Driven from incarnation to incarnation From life to death From death to life Through pain and need Through joy and pleasure I went through infinite changes and shapes Nothing can annihilate me I am longing for higher life I am longing for purer life I am longing for the Sun. Eternal being triumphs Over perishable illusion. 24. Position of GIBOR -- Chant GIBOR Coming from the origin GIBOR leads me back to it. 25. Position of UR -- Chant UR From UR Through UR Back to UR 26. Position of MAN -- Chant MAN Sacred MAN Rune of the spirit Connected with original light Man unifies with god Human nature is One with the Divine 27. Commitment May the Power of the Runes
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Be my strength as a Rune Master May the power of the Runes Be the tool to forge my destiny May the power of the Runes Make me understand the destinies Of individuals, groups, and nations May the power of the Runes Lead me on my direct path to my Higher Self May the power of the Runes Help me lead those who are seeking May the power of the Runes Help me work actively On a better destiny of my planet May the power of the Runes Help me contribute To establishing a prosperous new age On this planet Where there is One unified homeland of mankind On the throne of which Divine Spirit Divine Wisdom Divine Love Are ruling. I am Master Of the tools of creation eternal I promise To use these tools responsibly Meditate Extinguish candles Powers of the Runes We thank you for this experience Flow back to the realms of creation. To come when it is my will. Chant IS three times, imagine all surplus energies grounding while you chant. Repeat the grounding practice when needed.
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