Lesson 11: Basic Education

PENSUM

• Education today and tomorrow.
• Prenatal Education.
• Basic Education of the child, adolescence, youth, maturity and old age.

WHAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT

1. What is basic education and its importance?
2. Discipline and the foundations of basic education.
3. What to think and how to think.
4. Fear, its effect on meditation, release of initiative and the search for security.
5. To know how to listen and live.
6. The whole person and how to achieve it.
7. The education of parents and teachers.

PRACTICE: ALL THE PRACTICES HAVE BEEN TAUGHT RUNE FA

What is Basic Education?

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Free Initiative”)

• The purpose of basic education is to know ourselves and awaken our Consciousness. What is the purpose of education if not to become creative, conscious and truly intelligent? All this comes with the awakening of Consciousness.
• To do this we must develop understanding. To understand we must neither accept nor reject, but consciously investigate.

Prenatal Education

(See “The Mystery of the Golden Bloom”, chapter “Intelligence”) (See “The Mystery of the Golden Bloom,” chapter “Beauty”) (See “Basic Education”, chapter “Motherhood”)

• A child’s education begins from the moment of conception. If the act of love at the moment of conception is dominated by love and tenderness, the result is to incarnate an Essence with spirituality, high values, etc. If the love act at the time of conception is dominated by animalistic passion and lust (or even worse, the influence of alcohol, violence, etc.) the result is a child with inferior values, mental or physical defects, etc.
• During the months of gestation, the infant is shaped physically and psychologically by the mother’s imagination. Imagination is a force that shapes and creates. The mother must be very careful not to receive negative or bad impressions. i.e. television programs with violence, jealousy, passion, negative emotions, etc. Her husband should be very careful not to express negative feelings, anger, etc. in front of her. The mother should have beautiful paintings, fine sculptures, harmonious music, etc around her.

Moon Period (0-7 Years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “The Human Personality”)

• The Moon is associated with motherhood and the home. At this age the child is (or should be) mostly at home with his mother.
• During this period the Motor Brain develops. For this reason the child learns through imitation and example.

The Personality

• In this period the personality is created. Personality is created by the home environment, life on the street and at school. i.e. fights at home, crying, insults, scenes of violence, jealousy or adultery, harsh punishments, estrangement between parents, TV examples, etc. create a distorted personality. There must be a balance between the father who represents wisdom and strictness and the mother who represents love and sweetness.

The 3 brains

• In order to develop the personality properly, we need to cultivate its three aspects:
  • Thinking: teachings through lectures and study.
  • Emotion: Teachings through Art.
  • Movement: Teachings through movement, dances, games, etc.
• A core training addresses all three brains and not just the mental brain.

Essence-Personality

• The child’s personality and Essence need to develop in balance. Personality is nourished by good examples, wise teachings, etc. Essence feeds on tenderness, love, affection, music, flowers, beauty, harmony, etc. If the personality is overdeveloped at the expense of the Essence, the result is a mental impostor. If the Essence is developed without the development of the personality, the result is a man with a pure heart, but incompetent and maladjusted.

Period of Mercury (7-14 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “The Human Personality”) (See “Basic Education”, chapter “Discipline”) (See “Basic Education”, chapter “The 3 Brains”)

• Mercury is related to the mind, learning, movement, close travel, etc. The child now begins to make small “trips”, to school, to the playground, to his friends’ houses, etc. He also starts studying, going to school, etc.
• During this period the Intellectual Brain develops. For this reason the child is very curious and constantly asks “Why?”.

The Discipline

• The (engineering) discipline is the “cultivation of resistance”. Like children they teach us (mechanical) discipline. We need to develop understanding instead of discipline. When man has understanding he does not need discipline. Understanding allows us to reconcile order with freedom. o Order without freedom is tyranny. o Freedom without order is anarchy.

What to Think and How to Think

• Everyone wants to make others think what they think. i.e. have the same opinions, theories, prejudices, doctrines, beliefs, etc. But every man has the right to freedom of mind. When the mind enters a mold (or many molds) it stops being free and flexible.
• We must teach others how to think, that is: how to understand. One should not accept or reject something before consciously studying it and understanding it.

Period of Venus (14-21 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Adolescence”)

• This is the period of adolescence.
• Venus is related to love, romance, art, human relationships, etc.
• During this period the Emotional Brain develops. For the teenager, relationships with his friends begin to be very important. He begins to like listening to music, etc.

Sexuality

• The most important thing in this period is that sexual energy comes into activity. We must teach the adolescent the importance of sexual energy and the need to manage it properly.

  We should not be ashamed to talk to children about the issue of sexuality, because otherwise they will learn about it from classmates, pornography, etc.

Age of the Sun (21-42 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Youth”)

• This is the period of youth.
• The Sun is associated with creativity, free will, inclination, optimism, enthusiasm, etc.
• In this period the young man is full of vitality and energy. During this time man must conquer his place in life. The danger in this period is that he begins to abuse life. i.e. drinking, smoking, staying up late, sexually abusing, etc.

The Inclination

• Every person has a passion in life. This inclination comes from the Essence. Anyone who has found and practices their passion loves what they do and is always happy. He has no ambition for money, recognition, success, etc. “I” hates our inclination. One can find one’s inclination through three ways:
• To discover in himself a special ability.
• To find it through a great need that presents itself.
• To find it through the guidance of his parents or teachers. If one does not find one’s inclination by the end of the Sun period, it is difficult to find it afterwards.

The marriage

• The main issue of this age is marriage. A man should marry because of love. It is a big mistake for someone to marry out of passion, out of fear, out of interest or out of planning. “The fire of eternal youth is love.”

Period of Mars (42-49 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Maturity”)

• From 45, mature age begins.
• A mature man should know how to live his mature age properly. He must understand that his youth has passed. It is foolish for one to want to repeat in his mature age what he did in his youth. Every period of life has its beauty, and one must know how to live it.
• Mars is associated with power, authority, speech, war, etc. In this period the word of man begins to have authority. During this period, man must work very hard, with the power that Mars gives him, in order to crystallize everything he needs.

Fear and the Search for Safety

• Man must learn not to be afraid, and not to look for security in anything or anyone. All bitterness in this world is rooted in security seeking and fear. i.e. people fear life, fear death, fear what others will say, fear losing their place at work or in society, fear being alone in life, fear of poverty, etc. Every person should learn to be more confident. Fear is a lack of trust in Being.

Period of Jupiter (49-56 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Maturity”)

• Jupiter is associated with justice, abundance, power, etc. In this period he gives man what he deserves: (1) Cornucopia, or (2) The beggar’s rod
• If the person lived in a positive and upward way during the previous seven years, he receives the horn of plenty.
• If the person has not lived in a positive and upward way for the previous seven years, he receives the beggar’s rod.

The Whole Person

(See “Basic Training”, chapter “Completion”) (See “Basic Education”, chapter “The Whole Person”)

• In esotericism, one of the greatest longings is to gain psychological integrity. Man, instead of inner integrity, is full of psychological conflicts. The inner conflicts and the lack of psychological integrity are due to the multiplicity of the ‘I’.
• The main cause of psychological contradictions is envy. Envy is the main motive of the whole social mechanism. People are not satisfied with what they need (food, clothing and shelter. Envy causes them to want to “improve”, to acquire more and more.
• The mind is based on envy, i.e. comparison and “more than”. This concentrated tendency of envy strengthens the ‘I’ and multiplies our inner conflicts and contradictions, making us more unhappy and dissatisfied.
• To become whole persons we must explore and understand ourselves on all levels of the mind. In this way we dissolve the ‘I’ and end our inner conflicts. Thus, a permanent center of Consciousness is created within us, giving us psychological integrity.

Period of Saturn (56-63 years)

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “Old Age”)

• Old age begins at 56.
• Saturn is associated with old age, wisdom, death, time, etc.
• If man has lived in a positive and upward way during the previous seven years, he arrives at this period full of wisdom, love and strength. He lives from moment to moment, having dissolved the “I”. Everyone respects him and looks up to him for his wisdom and knowledge.
• If man has not lived in a positive and upward way in the previous seven years, he arrives at this period full of fears and weakness. He lives forever in the past. He tires others and everyone avoids him because he constantly talks about his past, complains, etc.

To Know how to Listen and Live

• A basic education teaches us how to listen. One does not hear that he is constantly talking to others about his psychological song, about things that interest him, etc. Also, one does not listen when, although one seems intent on what is being said, his “bad secretary” (his ‘ego’) translates it wrongly.
• Only when we are in a state of alertness and self-awareness, without the burden of the past, can we listen without the translation of ‘I’. We must live moment to moment, with a receptive and spontaneous mind. For the mind, Truth is the unknown from moment to moment. The past has passed and borne its fruits. We must understand the importance of the present.

Next Seven Years

• After 63 years, man passes into the next seven years consisting of the combination of Saturn with the other planets. 63-70 years (Saturn-Moon): man is born again, lives in fantasy, etc. 70-77 years (Saturn-Mercury): the person becomes restless, wants to learn, study, etc. 77-84 years (Saturn-Venus): the person begins to fall in love again, wants companionship, etc. etc.

Higher Octaves

• If the man is a great Initiate, after Saturn he may go through the periods of the higher octaves: Uranus (63-70): this period is only for internally developed people, only great Initiates receive it. Neptune (70-77): is for the great Hierophants. Pluto (77-84): is for Mahatmas. (84-91) & (91-98): two transitional periods. Then: divine harmony and powers for those who have obtained the Elixir of Longevity.

The 3 brains

(See “Basic Education”, chapter “The 3 Brains”) (See “Tarot and Kabbalah”, chapter “Arcano 13”)

• The physical body has 3 brains.
  • The difference between the 5 centers and the 3 brains is that the 5 centers are psychological and the 3 brains are biological (belonging to the physical body).

• Every person has 3 personalities: one intellectual, one emotional and one kinetic.
  • i.e. upon the death of a loved one, the emotional personality falls into despair, the intellectual asks “why?”, and while the kinetic just wants to run away.
• At birth, the Lords of Karma deposit in each brain a certain amount of vital values (bobin-kandelnosts).
  • This amount depends on the Karma-Dharma of each person.
• Life can be extended or shortened depending on how we use these values.
  • Life is prolonged by saving vital values and doing good deeds.
  • Life is reduced by abusing the brains.

• When the vitals from one of the brains are depleted, disease and death slowly comes.
  • That is why it is said that one “dies in thirds”.
• To conserve vital values and prolong life, we must use the 3 brains in balance.
  • i.e. in Asia there were monks who, living with balance, reached the age of 300 years.
  • When one brain gets tired we have to stop its activity and utilize another brain.

Practice: The FA Rune

(See “The Magic of the Runes”, chapter “The FA Rune”) (See “The Perfect Marriage”, chapter “The Eskimos of the North”)

• Say a few words about Runes. Runes were the first script of the universal language of the Golden Age. With our bodies, we take the form of the Runes in order to have union with the higher magical forces that influence our Consciousness. We use concentration, breathing, mantras and prayer at the same time.
• In this lesson we will teach the FA Rune. Rune FA represents the DIVINE BREATH, the DIVINE FIRE that fertilizes Nature and creates everything in the Universe. This exercise helps us to receive within ourselves this power to awaken our Consciousness.
• How to make the Rune: To show the Rune position (left hand higher than right) We imagine the energies entering us from the palms. We pray: “Marvelous Forces of Love. Revive my Sacred Fires so that my Consciousness will awaken.” We vocalize the mantras: FA… FE… FI… FO… FOU… We repeat the prayer and mantras 3 or more times.
• After explaining what it does, how it is done, where it helps us, etc. we will make the FA Rune together with the people of the First Chamber so that they can see it in action.

Suggested Practice: “The 7 Logos”

• At the end of the lesson we will do the FA Rune and a short guided practice:
• First we all do the FA Rune together 3 times, repeating the prayer and the mantras: FA, FE, FI, FO, FOU.
• Then we will sit for a short meditation practice.
  • We first take a few deep breaths, relax, clear the mind, etc.
  • We concentrate in the heart and ask our Being to intercede for us before the 7 Logos.
  • We ask Logos Gabriel to help us have love, health and harmony at home and in the family.
  • We ask Logos Raphael to help us have health and manage the mind properly.
  • We ask Logos Uriel to help us have love and understanding for other people and to use our sexual energy correctly and with purity.
  • We ask Logos Michael to help us have optimism, faith, joy and motivation for life.
  • We ask Logos Samael to help us have strength, will and courage to face all obstacles in life and on the spiritual path.
  • We ask Logos Zachariel to help us have charity, justice and balance.
  • We ask Logos Orifiel to help us have wisdom, spirituality and commitment to the death of the ego.
  • The practice will take about 15-20 minutes (without the Rune).
• Finally, we will encourage people to do the FA Rune every morning and night.