The Meaning of Ancient Symbols.

The purpose of this chapter is to mention that these ancient symbols from many different World Religions are codified, powerful, guided meditations.

All of these Ancient Symbols, these Guided Meditations, some of them Thousands of years old, are used, given, in the Techniques of Energy Enhancement.

Energy Enhancement Is a series of Guided Meditations leading towards Enlightenment, Harmony in your Relationships and Lastly, World Harmony and Peace. The techniques are mostly channeled first and then, surprisingly, found in the Ancient Symbols written about here.

The Powerful Kundalini Kriyas and the Daoist Meditational Techniques in Stage 2 of Energy Enhancement, written about here, are only given by word of mouth on specialised courses very difficult to find.

Each religion is a precious jewel given by God to one Master who passes on these techniques of Enlightenment to his Congregation, to his Sangha.

God does not care how you Evolve, just that you do Evolve.

In a way, each of these techniques is a Ladder to take you up to heaven. When you have reached heaven then you can throw away the Ladder, unless that is, unless you want to become a Boddhisatva and stay on to help all living beings attain the same peaceful exalted state. Then the ladder is again necessary, for the people who come afterwards.

One technique is sufficient to make you enlightened. If you choose to become a Boddhisatva teacher, then you will need to become an expert on many different techniques, so that you can help many different people. You will need to become a ladder collector.

Then the fact that marauding, monocultural "Religious" Organisations have destroyed the Temples and the Texts of these precious jewels, becomes something of a crying shame of humanity. Thank heavens for the ingenuity of these Masters who knew, and know, the Gengis Khans of humanity, the mentality of those "Right Men", those competitive tyrants who say "Not invented here".

Thank heavens that these legominisms, these codified meditations have been passed down in Symbol and teaching tale for thousands of years.

The most profound secrets of Taoism are contained within this symbol, sent to us down the ages in an innocent picture. Gurdjieff, one of the first Sufi Masters to teach in the West, called these inheritances, formulated by the ancient Masters of Wisdom, by the word "legominisms". This Legominism. This symbol means movement in a circle. Movement of energy around the body in the Central and Governing Acupuncture Energy meridians. The Circulation of theEnergies.

Ancient Taoists formulated five elemental paths of energy all of which are taught in the Levels of Energy Enhancement. Each element more profound than the last. The five elemental paths of Energy Enhancement are those of: -

1. Water.

2. Air.

3. Earth.

4. Wood.

5. Fire.

The circulation changes from the Yin of one element to the Yang of the other. From the energies of the Earth to the energy of the Heavens. Between earth and sky there is a voltage along which energy can flow. The dots in the yin and yang tears symbolise the Chakras at the base of the spine - Mooladhara Chakra whose element is earth, and the crown of the head - Sahasrara Chakra. It shows how energy can be reversed when a person works to their full potential. Not only does energy flow from Heaven to Earth, but also from Earth to Heaven. Yin changes to Yang, Black to White. Stuck negative energies are transmuted to positive flowing energies. This is a secret taught in the first Level of Energy Enhancement. It is profound and leads to removal of stuck energies and emotions and painful memories. It is the secret of the cleaning of the Augean stables as in the Fifth labour of Hercules.

In the past, psychologists have only worked on one painful experience at a time by providing a meaningful theory by Freud or Jung and then examining the problem. Through understanding the problem, it is released and the client adjusted back into society in his proper place. He may still be neurotic because only one problem has been solved.

The same with ancient lives. We may travel back to, see and fix one life problem in one of our past lives, but what about the other thousands of life-times, each with their own traumas, deaths and problems.

There is an ancient Greek myth about Hercules, the Son of God, Zeus, wanting to marry Persephone the Daughter of the King of the underworld. The Crown Chakra wanting to combine with the Base Chakra. Shiva combining with Shakti. A Human Being becoming Enlightened.

He needed to ask her father's permission. When he did, her father was pleased to marry his daughter to the son of Zeus but first he must perform 12 tasks. The 12 labours of Hercules. The fifth task was to clean out the Kings stables - The Augean stables. Hercules said, "No Problem," but when he saw the stables, he realised what a mountainous task he had taken on. There were thousands of horses and they had been creating manure for hundreds of years. Just like we, ourselves, create and absorb pain and Karma over thousands of lifetimes. At first, he tried to dig the manure, examining every turd. Just like the psychologists and past life therapists of today. But after one month he had got nowhere. He had only cleared a small hole in a mountain of shit.

After much thought, he then projected to change the course of the river Styx, the river we cross when we die, through the stables. When he did this, the stables were quickly cleaned as the river washed all the manure away. Deep Rivers of Energy lie hidden deep within us. As we learn to access and then to use them. So, All our History. All our pain can be dissipated and washed away

In the same manner, our first Level of Energy Enhancement teaches basic methods whereby the mountains of manure within us can be removed, painlessly, without examining every turd. The whole mountain can gradually be moved and our History painting which has been painted brushful by brushful, day by day, can be returned to the clean white sheet we were when we were born. We are full of a lot of History not only from this life, but also from previous lives. Our Energy Enhancement can truly remove this Personal History so that all painful memories can be dissipated and our energies can then start to flow in their natural courses, once again.

An enlightened being is sometimes given the title Paramahamsa. This refers to an ancient Hindu myth of when the world was young, the whole of the surface was covered with water. The mischievous Gods mixed milk and poison in the water and stirred it all together. Paramahamsa was the name meaning the Great White Swan. This enormous Swan, is said to have had the ability to put its beak deep down into the water and draw out pure milk. It had the capacity to discriminate and draw in only the milk, which is the reason it remained white, and reject the water. Not only that, a Paramahamsa has the capacity of changing water into wine, poison into milk, Yin into Yang, black into white.

This Yin Yang drawing symbolises the process whereby we too can do the same. It shows how to keep free of negative influences and energies by transmuting them within our energy systems. The function of a Paramahamsa. The Function of an Enlightened being. The function of Energy Enhancement Level 1.

The Worm Ourobouros is a Dragon which encircles the world and has its tail in its mouth. This symbol has the same meaning as the Yin-Yang and Zen Circle but comes from the frozen North of the world. The symbol comes from the Icelandic and Norse Sagas which talk Of the Gods and men that die in battle who live in Valhalla. Odin or Woden from which comes Wednesday or Wodensday is the One-Eyed god of wisdom. The Tales tell of how in order to obtain the gift of wisdom from one of the gods, he had to give the gift of one of his eyes. His eye became one. 

The Third Eye of Ajna chakra became open and he became wise.

The Zen Circle is the same shape and meaning as the Yin-Yang and the Worm Ourobouros.

Zen comes from the Sanskrit word Dhyana. When Boddhidharma was sent by his enlightened mistress, over the mountains of the Himalayas to China, Dhyana was changed to Chan and there was mixed with Taoism. This mixture, when taken by Zen Master Dogen to Japan, became Zen.

Zen is the Hybrid of Buddhism and Taoism. However, Zen is not just the simple Dhyana of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali where Dhyana is described as "The flow of energy between the meditator and the focus of meditation". In Zen, Zen has come to mean what the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali refer to as Samadhi and not any of the 17 levels of Samadhi referred to in that book, but the final level, that of Nirbija or "No Seed" Samadhi. Enlightenment. In Buddhism, Prajna Paramita or reaching out, connecting, to the Monad above the Soul.

Zen and Zen Masters have spent years, shocking people into Samadhi. For example, one of the few enlightened Zen Masters, Yuanwu, said, "The essential point of Zen is to make the roots deep and the stem firm". That is, to ground negative energies and to get into alignment!!.

The Zen Circle again is The Circulation of the Energies, Stage 2 of Energy Enhancement, The Kundalini Kriyas, The Daoist Elemental Paths of the Chi.

Zen Masters are always saying, "He is not enlightened!"

Yuanwu says, "Zen teachers without the methodology of real experts unavoidably cheat and deceive those whom they try to teach, leading them into confusion, fooling around with a bunch of curios." Many Zen teachers, now and in the past, try to fool people with just the first stages of meditation, just to make the mind still. To the outward eye, all meditators look the same. Normally, we cannot tell the experience of another human being just by looking at them. So that when we see the person sitting in meditation, we cannot understand the exercises given to them in meditation to expand their awareness.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga, taught in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali finish at Samadhi. However there is a Ninth Limb to the Eight Limbs of Yoga, also taught in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This is "Samyama". This is what we teach in the Three Levels of Energy Enhancement.

The Third Book of the Four Books of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is almost completely filled with the coded methodology of Samyama upon the Chakras. 

Its aim is the Creation of Psychic Powers. However, the last part of the book says in III 38, "These powers are obstacles to Enlightenment or Nirbija Samadhi, but are Psychic powers or Siddhis in worldly pursuits," and in III 51, "By Non Attachment even to Siddhis, the seed of bondage is destroyed" and thus follows Kaivalya, Independence or Enlightenment.

We do not become attached to Powers, however it is nice to play with them. They show us that something is happening. And if we use them to purify the Psychic bodies, as the Three Levels of Energy Enhancement, then this teaching is very powerful.

In Energy Enhancement we are careful to teach only Siddhis to purify the Psychic Bodies. Particularly The Grounding of Negative Energies. The Opening of the Heart and the destruction of Selfishness. The Mastery of Relationships. The removal of blockages between the Base and the Crown Chakras - The destruction of the Fear of Death - Enlightenment!

Taoism combined with Buddhism created the hybrid of Zen. Therefore it is only natural that Taoist principles became incorporated into the real Zen.

For example, my Zen teacher, Zen Master Hogen of Japan, says that Hogen means, "Master of the Tao"

Although used by Hitler and the fascists during the Second World War, became involved in Black Magic, this symbol is ancient and comes from old Hindu sources. Hitler knew that it came from old Aryan sources, and Aryans and the Hindu religion have been found in archeological digs in the Indus valley in India dating back 5000 years at least. This symbol includes the meaning of the Cross and the Reiki symbol Choku Rei. Choku Rei symbolises movement in a circle.

Again, wise sages, the awakened ones of the past have encoded a message in the symbol because they know about the burning of books, the rewriting of history, the pogroms against various religions and races, the destruction of all that is not theirs in all races and religions. The symbol, like the cross, shows the awakening of the energies of the spine and the opening of the Heart. However it also means something more.

It shows movement in a circle. Depending upon which way around the limbs are, it shows movement in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. This refers to Circulation of energy around the body. One of the most profound secrets of Yoga Kriya, Reiki and Taoism, which forms part of the first Level into Energy Enhancement.

Through this method, blockages in the chakras can be overcome and energy made to flow correctly in the central spinal channel. This is a secret of Kriya Yoga taught only orally by Gurus to their most advanced disciples. It is the Kriya Yoga of Lahira Mahasaya taught by Paramahamsa Yogananda. It is the Taoist circulation of the five elements.

The world has changed. More is required now.

Not only that, but also, this symbol gives the secret of force, and the direction of movement of spiritual energy.

Looking in the direction of the movement of spiritual energy, the force associated with this movement always move anti-clockwise to the direction of movement. As it moves the spiritual force moves in an anti clockwise spiral around the axis of movement.

Those familiar with physics will remember the picture of light moving in a straight line with the lines of magnetic force moving in a spiral around it. Spiritual energy is exactly the same.

An example of this knowledge is symbolised by the Bronze pillars of the altar in Saint Peters cathedral, in Rome. Within these vast bronze pillars, cast for a kings ransom in the middle ages, is the secret of the ascending and descending spiritual (Spirit = Spiral?) energy, both of which are necessary for enlightenment, but in the unenlightened only flows in one direction, from up to down.

The Pillars are composed of two spirals of energy intertwined around each other like the spirals of DNA in a gene. One spiral is clockwise representing the ascending current. The other spiral is anti-clockwise representing the Descending current.

The symbol of the Whirling Dervishes institutionalised in the Dervish organisations since the 12^th century AD, is a visual moving symbol of the Swastika, Choku Rei and the Altar Columns of saint Peters in Rome.

Sufi Dervishes are the mystic Monks of Islam.

Practically, as you turn anti-clockwise the descending current is activated. You discharge negative energy into the earth as the Base Chakra becomes activated.

As you turn clockwise your energy system reaches up to the Soul as the Crown Chakra opens. The Ascending current becomes activated.

Whirling is a preliminary technique to Energy Enhancement Techniques, much beloved by Devi Dhyani.

Slow turning, or whirdling - movement of the hips as if you were turning a Hula Hoop, gently and slowly removes the dirt.- As an aside know that Hula Hoops were developed by the Kahuna Mystics of Hawaii, for the benefit of the whole human race, in order to accelerate the clearing of the Base and Crown Chakras.

Fast turning with Dirty, blocked chakras move the shit quickly and people develop headaches or become physically sick.

By whirling you can have a real knowledge as to how pure and cleared out your base and crown chakras are.

This is a real and practical method preliminary to Meditation for clearing the spiritual body.

Dervishes turn for days and have experiences of Ecstasy and Cosmic Truth.

Also,

The Chinese, Taoist, Circular Doors.

The Hindu Brahmin string of Brahmacharya, which circulates in a circle over one shoulder and around the genitals.

The Christian Fishes, like the Yin Yang sign and the sign of Pisces.

All of these above are "Legominisms" as said Gurdjieff, meaning objective art which contains a hidden spiritual meaning, namely it signifies the way in which energy normally circulates within the human body. If the body is sick. If it has any energy blockages. Then this flow of circulating energy cannot be full and healthy. When all blockages are removed, we are said to be Enlightened.

So, it also symbolises a guided meditation upon this flow as in the Kundalini Kriyas or the Taoist Circulations, Paths, of the Chi. To help remove blockages and strengthen the flow of this subtle energy through the major energy meridians of the body.

My talk upon this removal of blockages and the first of the Kundalini Kriyas and the first Paths of the Chi. The Water and the Air Paths, can be found in Real Audio at this address......

https://www.energyenhancement.org.uk/realaudio/Stage2EnergyCirculation.rm

Goto the following address. Give it a little time as it is about 500KB to download onto the page. You will need to have Shockwave installed on your computer.

The Circulation of the Energies is also called two of  the 5 Elemental Pathways of the Chi in Taoist literature and also in Hindu literature, the Kundalini Kriyas - the major techniques to enable human beings to remove energetic blockages in the energy nadis or meridians of the body, which stop the flow of cosmic energy in the whole human being.

But before I go into that I’d like to talk a little bit about the reason why these blockages occur.  Why are we not perfect?  Originally, why does every human being have these energy blockages within the body?

Well, basically, when we get something, which we cannot handle, when we get something, which we cannot digest. then the result is pain.  Now, the Buddha said, a thousand years ago, “attachment leads to pain.”  

When we attach, robotically to another human being, through energetic links, chakra to chakra, when we attach, robotically to anything that we consider as mine.  When we have my husband, when we have my girlfriend, when we have my book, my Rolls Royce, my house.  When we have my country, when we have anything which is MINE then there is a possibility that if that thing is taken away from you or if that thing is destroyed then that MINE is going to BLOW UP in your face, the result being pain.

Robotically attached without knowing about the attachment.  When our appointment, which we make with that attached thing, is broken then our appointment gets dissed and the result is disappointment.  This disappointment, this pain so effects our unruly emotions that a nodule of negative energy lodges itself within the body creating a blockage, which causes the energy system in that part of the body not to function correctly. 

Because when we are young, when we are not used to the digestion of negativity, when we are not used to the digestion of pain, when we cannot dissolve those negative feelings within our emotional body then the result is something which is left over, a negativity is held there which then goes on to prevent the functioning in that part of the body again.

An example of that could be something like amnesia.  For example, it is a well known fact that if a trauma is caused, for whatever reason, now that trauma can be emotional, that trauma can be physical, like if you are hit over the head, or that trauma can be mental, but if that effects us so much then the result can be an amnesia in that part of the body.

Dyslexia is likewise.  The wrong functioning of any part of the body mind means that we have some blockage there, some nodule of negativity, which is stopping the flow of genius, which we are all capable of.

Now, the theory of acupuncture says that there are 5 elements within the body. Each of these elements is composed of two meridians or energy channels that flow all over the body.  These energy channels have been mapped, four thousand years ago.  Each of the energy channels have several little chakras on them, which are called acupuncture points.  By stimulating the acupuncture point you can remove part of the blockage that’s there. 

But, interesting thing is that if you have an air element and you have a blockage on that air element then you will be depressed and you will have sadness.  Sadness and depression are caused by a blockage on the air meridians.  And this means that the emotion of sadness and depression is what I call a negative emotion.  If you have a blockage within the body, (I always say better out than in) and if you express your emotion and depression then you can help to release that blockage. It is no good to hold it inside. 

Similarly, with the water meridian the emotion which is caused by the blockage of the water meridian is fear.  So, if you have fear again, this is a negative image and this is something that needs to be released.  But the cause of that is the negative energy which has been put into the body/mind which needs to be released in whatever way we can. 

Wood is anger.  Fire is manicism or foolish enthusiasm.  Earth is sympathy, wanting sympathy from other people or giving sympathy too much and foolishly without any result just because you want to give sympathy without wanting to cure the person. 

All of these emotions are called negative emotions because they are caused by blockages on the meridians.  Again, acupuncture has been talking about these for thousands of years. 

For example, a positive emotion is something, which is natural to a human being.  A natural emotion, for example, could be love, pure love, pure universal love. Not because of this, not because of that but simply you are radiant with the power of love due to the energy flowing naturally though all meridians. 

This energy of love is called the energy of change because this power of love, this Radiation,  falls upon the blockages of others and it releases them it brings them out to the surface it helps to heal everything in its surroundings. As the power of love, as the frequency of that love energy gets higher and higher, then it effects people further and further away so that in the end a person meditating in the Himalayas will be affecting everybody on this planet. 

Another positive emotion is called Will, Will power.  It’s natural.  It’s not forced.  It’s also called the power of doing, the power of developing enthusiasm for anything the mind wants to do, so there is nothing saying, “No!  I don’t want to do that.” If it is necessary the Will will develop enthusiasm for that project and carry it through with energy and passion. The development of enthusiasm goes side by side with the removal of blockages.

The Circulation of the Energies.

So, after a little bit of a talk about blockages, we then move onto the 5 elemental pathways of the Chi and we move onto the Kundalini Kriyas.

Now, the circulation of the energy is the first part of these techniques.  We don’t want to go too quickly because too fast a release will be difficult to digest.   So, what I am going to teach this time is the circulation of the energies, the pathway of the air and the pathway of the water.  

Remember I was talking a little bit ago about the central meridian and the governing meridian being the major meridians to which all the others are tributaries.  Air, water, wood, fire and earth are only tributaries to the major meridians. Now these major meridians flow along the spine and down the front of the body. So, you will have the central meridian which flows down the front of the body and the governing meridian, which flows up the spine. 

Because the energy is flowing in both directions at once it will flow in an air direction if it flows down the front of the body and up the spine.  The air circulation of the energy is one, which moves very quickly.  It is a fire path. It heats up the fire of Kundalini, which bursts through the blockages very, very quickly. It heats things up.

As the blockages get released inside so your outside life will change, sometimes dramatically.  As we are releasing negative energy so we want to be able to control that release.  Because if it comes out too quickly we find it difficult to digest and the way we do this is by knowing that the water circulation, when the energy flows up the front of the body and down the spine,  slows the process of the release of negative energies down.  It will make the process of release more manageable. We need to be able to do both of these things. We also need to know that the energy is flowing in both directions at once, anyway. 

As you reduce the stones in the pathway of the water so the water will flow more strongly and easily. The reason why the energies in these meridians are not flowing at the moment is because these blockages slow down the energies in the points where they are.  They act as stones in the water course way. They stop the river flowing. 

For example, if you have a river and the river widens out then the flow of water will be the same, the amount of water flowing will be the same, but the water will not flow as fast in that area.  It will slow down. This is what happens where energy flows through a blockage.  The energy slows down.  Now, if you have a river, the river is carrying loads and loads of silt and sediment in it, in the water, so when it hits a point where the water slows down then the silt and the dirt that is being carried by the river is deposited at that point. 

In a human body we have a similar situation.  Where the energy slows down because it goes through a blockage, there all the toxins go to play.  All the toxins are deposited in that point. 

Over a process of many years, as we eat too many toxins, as the toxins flow though the area where the blockage is they will coagulate there and over a period of time organs will not function as well, and organs will die down, they will not work as well.

Eventually they will actually die and that’s when we die as well!!

So, by reducing the blockages in the body we also free all the toxins so that they can come out so that we can function longer and better with greater health and enthusiasm.