The Cosmic Christ And The Holy Week Samael Aun Weor

THE COSMIC CHRIST AND THE HOLY WEEK

Before all, it is necessary to profoundly comprehend what, in reality, is the Cosmic

Christ.

It is urgent to know, in the name of truth, that Christ is not someone merely historical.
People are used to thinking of Christ as a historical person that existed 2.000 years ago.
Such a concept is erroneous; Christ is not of time. Christ is timeless! Christ unfolds Itself
from instant to instant, moment to moment. Christ, in Itself is the Sacred Fire, the Cosmic
Sacred Fire.

If we were to strike a match, fire would germinate. Scientists say that fire is the result of
combustion, but this is false. The fire that germinated from the match is contained within
the match. Only when we strike the match do we free it from its imprisonment, and the
flame appears. We can say then that fire in itself is not the result of combustion, but
rather, combustion is the result of the fire.

It is important to know, my dear brothers, that what interests us the most is the fire of the
fires, the flame of the flames, the subject of the Astral Fire. The hand that strikes the
match so that the flame appears has fire, life, otherwise it would not be able to move.
After the match dies off, the flame continually exists in the Fourth Vertical. The scientists
do not know what fire is. They utilize it, but do not know it. Thus, my dear brothers, it is
important for you to comprehend what fire is. Before the dawn of creation vibrated
intensively, Fire made its apparition.

Remember my dear brothers, that there are two Ones! The First One is Aelohim! The
Second is Elohim! The First One is Unknown, the Incognito, the Divinity that cannot be
painted, nor symbolized neither sculpted. The Second One germinates from the First One,
and is the Demiurgeous Architect of the Universe, the Fire.

I wish you to understand that one is the fire that burns in the earth and the altar, and the
other is the fire of the spirit, like Aelohim or Elohim! Elohim is, therefore, the
Demiurgeous, the Army of the Voice, the Grand Word. Each one of the constructors of
the universe is a living Flame, Living Fire. It is written that God is a devouring fire.

Fire is Christ, the Cosmic Christ. Elohim, in itself, germinated from Aelohim. When
Elohim unfolds, he endures as Two to initiate the Cosmic Manifestation into It's Wife,
the Divine Mother. When the One unfolds into the Two, then emerges the Three, which is
the fire. The beings of the Fire fertilize the water of existence, and then the Chaos
converts itself into the Divine Androgynous.

Thus it is important to comprehend that the Army of the Voice, the Army of the Word, is
Fire, and that living Fire, that philosophical Fire that fertilizes the chaotic matter, is the
Cosmic Christ, the Logos, the Grand Word! But, in order for the Logos to come into
manifestation, the One must unfold into the Two. That is to say: The Father unfolds into

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the Mother, and from the union of the two opposites is born the Third, the Fire! That Fire
is the Logos, Christ that makes the existence of the universe in the dawn of any creation.

It is important to understand better what Christ is, in order so that we will not merely be
happy with remembering the historical account, because Christ is a reality from instant to
instant, moment to moment, second to second. He is the Creator. Fire has the power to
create atoms and to disintegrate them, the power to use the universal cosmic powers, etc.
Fire has the power to unite all the atoms and create universes or to disintegrate universes.
The world is a fireball that either burns or goes out according to the laws.

So Christ is the fire; and because of that you will see written in the cross the words:
IGNIS NATURA RENOVATUR INTEGRAM "INRI" which means that fire renovates
(rejuvenates) nature continually.

Now, I believe you are beginning to understand why the subject of the Astral Fire, the
Flame of the Flames, the Occult, the esoteric aspect of Fire, interests us. In reality, it is
the Fire that is Christic, that has the power to transform all that is, all that has been, and
all that will be. Without "INRI," it would not be possible to Christify ourselves.

As I have said, the Intimate Christ, the Cosmic Christ, has to take three steps, from the
bottom to top, through the seven regions of the Universe. I have also said that Christ must
take the three steps from the bottom to top. Here is the mystery of the three and seven
steps of the Free Masonry. It is a real shame that the Masonic brothers have forgotten all
this. In any case, the Christos, the Logos, shines in the Zenith of the Spiritual Midnight.
Like in the Occident or in the Orient, and in each of these three positions, it is repeated in
the seven regions.

The mystic who guides himself by the star of the night, by the Spiritual Sun, knows that
those three steps mean inside the seven regions. Let us also think of the Sun, of
lightening, and Fire. Here are the three lights, the three aspects of the Logos, in the seven
regions.

When the One unfolds into the Two, from it emerges the Third, and this one is the Fire,
and it creates and recreates again. This One can create with the power of the Word, with
the Solar Word, or Magic Word, or the Word of the Central Sun. Thus, the Logos is
created.

By means of fire, we can Christify ourselves. It is vain for Christ to be born in

Bethlehem, if he is not born in our hearts. Fruitless is His crucifixion, death and
resurrection in the holy land, if He is not born, does not die, or resurrect in ourselves as
well.

We need to incarnate the Cosmic Christos, the Spirit of Fire, to make its flesh in
ourselves. As long as we stand idle, we are dead to the things of the Spirit, because It is
life, the Logos, the Grand Word... Heru Pakroat! He is Vishnu. The word.

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Vishnu comes from the root "Vish," which means "to penetrate." He penetrates
everything that is, has been, and will be. We need Him to penetrate us so that He can
change us radically. He who pretends to disintegrate the Ego with only the intellect
marches along in error.

We obviously need to know ourselves if we really want to Christify ourselves. If we want

to know ourselves to achieve the Christification, we need to self-observe ourselves to see
ourselves. Only through this path is it possible for us to one day arrive at the
disintegration of the Ego. The Ego is the sum total of all our defects: Anger, Lust, Greed,
Envy, Pride, Laziness, Gluttony, etc., etc., etc. Even if we were to have a thousand
tongues to speak, and a palate of steel, we would not be able to articulate the number of
all our defects precisely.

As I have said, we need to self-observe ourselves to know ourselves, because if we

observe ourselves we discover our psychological defects, and then we can work on them.
When someone admits that he has a psychological defect, he begins to observe himself.
This, in fact, converts him into a different being.

My dear Gnostic Brothers, I want you to understand the necessity of learning to observe
oneself, to see oneself; however one must know how to observe, because there is one
way, the mechanical observation, and another, the conscious observation.

Someone who hears of our teaching for the first time would say: "But what do I gain
from observing myself? I have seen that I have anger, jealousy. So what?" Well, it is
quite clear that this is the mechanical observation! We need to observe the observer! This
is the conscious observation of ourselves.

The mechanical observation of ourselves is never going to take us anywhere. It is absurd,

unconscious, sterile. We need conscious self-observation to work on our defects.

If we feel anger at a given moment, let us observe the observed, the scene of anger. We
must not put it off and do it later, let us do it now. When we observe the observed, what
we see in ourselves, we will really know if it was anger or not, because it could have been
a nervous syncope that we mistook for anger. If, suddenly, we are invaded by jealousy,
well, let us observe the observed. What was it that we observed? Maybe the woman was
with another man! Or, if a woman, the man was with another woman! And we felt
jealous. In any case, in a serene and profound meditation, let us observe the observed to
know if, in reality, there existed jealousy or not.

When we observe the observed by means of meditation and the obvious self-reflection,
we therefore turn observation into Consciousness. When we become conscious of such
and such a defect of a psychological type, we can work on it with the Fire.

We would have to concentrate on Stella Maris, Tonantzin, Rea, Martha, etc., who is
derived from one part of our being, and is the Igneous Serpent of our magical powers, the
Sacred Cobra of the ardent fire.

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With Her flaming powers, we can disintegrate the psychological defect, psychic
aggregate that we have observed consciously. It is obvious at the same time, that the
Essence or trapped fire in the psychic aggregate that we disintegrate, will shine, will be
freed. And as we go on disintegrating the aggregates, the percentage of the Essence
which is the Christic Fire, will multiply. Finally one day, the fire will shine fully inside
ourselves, here and now.

We need the fire to seethe into us. Only the sacred name or INRI, put on the cross of the
martyr of Calvary, can break the psychic aggregates. All those who pretend to eliminate
all their aggregates without taking the fire into account, march down a mistaken path.
They are not only heading the wrong way, but are also confusing others. It is said that
Christ was born in the town of Bethlehem about 2.000 years ago. This is false, because
the town of Bethlehem did not exist at that time. Bethlehem has a Chaldean root Ben, and
Ben is fire; the Tower of Fire of the Chaldeans.

In our body, the head and neck are the tower because the rest of the body is the temple.
He who has been able to bring up the Fire in himself, he who has brought it up to his
brain, up to the top, in fact, will be able to convert himself into the body of the Christus,
the Fire, the Spirit of the Fire.

It is the Primitive Original Fire who is able to Christify us totally. It is the Fire, the Fohat
blazing within us who will transform us totally. Once the Fire blazes in us, we will be
transformed into totally different beings. We will become different beings. Then we will
enjoy full illumination and cosmic powers. Thus, once understood, my brothers, we must
work with the Fire.

To whoever knows, the word gives him power. No one has pronounced it. No one will
pronounce it... only he who has incarnated it.

Christ, the Spirit of Fire, is not merely an historical personage. He is the Army of the
Voice. He is the force that is beyond the personality, Ego and individuality. He is a force,
like electricity and magnetism, a power, a great Cosmic and Universal manifestation. He
is the Cosmic Fire that enters into the man [woman] who is adequately prepared, into the
man who has that tower of Bethlehem ablaze.

When Christ incarnates inside a man, the latter is transformed radically. He is the blessed
child that must be born in each being. Thus, as He was born in this universe millions of
years ago to totally transform this solar system, He must be born in each one of us. He
was born in the stable of Bethlehem. That is to say, He is born among the animals of
desire, among the psychological aggregates that He needs to eliminate. Only Fire can
eliminate such aggregates. Thus, wherever these aggregates are, the Fire appears to
destroy them, to reduce them to cosmic dust, and to free the Essence. How can He free
the soul, if He does not penetrate profoundly into the human organism?

In the Orient, Christ is Vishnu, and I repeat, the wo rd Vish means to penetrate. The Fire,
the Christ, the Logos, can penetrate profoundly into the human organism to burn the

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scum that we have inside ourselves. But we need to love the Fire, to render cult to the
Flame.

The hour has come to understand that only Fohat can transform us radically. The Christ
inside ourselves works eliminating the root of evil. INRI eliminates the psychological
aggregates. This is formidable. It reduces them to ashes, but it is necessary to work with
the Fire.

This is why, in our works of concentration, we must invoke the Igneous Serpent of our
magical powers, because only with the Fire can we eliminate all the undesirable elements
that we carry within ourselves. The lunar coldness will never be able to eliminate the
psychic aggregates. We need the flaming powers of the Logos. We need the INRI to
transform ourselves.

My dear brothers, understand what the Holy Week is, and what the seven days of the
Holy Week are.In the ancient times, everything was directed by the solar calendar: Moon,
Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The days were: Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Unfortunately, this calendar was altered by
medieval fanatical people.

The Holy Week is profoundly significant. Remember the seven and three steps of Free
Masonry. The Christ must seethe first of all in our human body. Later on, the flame must
be deposited in the profoundness of the soul, and at last, in the profoundness of the spirit.
These three steps through the Seven Spheres are profoundly significant. Obviously, these
three fundamental steps are found within the seven spheres of the world and the universe.

Unquestionably, the Holy Week has very deep esoteric roots, because the initiate must
work on the Lunar forces, and on the forces of Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter,
and Saturn. The Logos unfolds itself in the seven regions according to the seven planets
of the solar system.

The Flame must appear in the Physical body, must advance into the Vital body, must
continue its passage through the Astral, must continue its journey through the world of
the Mind, must arrive at the sphere of Venus in the Causal world, must proceed through
the Buddhic or Intuitive world, and at last, on the Seventh day, it will arrive at the wo rld
of Atman, the world of the spirit. Then, the master will receive the baptism of the Fire
that will transform him radically.

Obviously the whole Cosmic drama, as it is written in the four gospels, must be lived
inside ourselves, here and now. This is not something merely historical; it is something to
be lived here and now!

The three traitors who crucified Christ, who gave Him death, are inside ourselves. The
Masons know them. We Gnostics also know them: Judas, Pilate, and Caiaphas. Judas is
the demon of desire that torments us. Pilate is the demon of the mind that has
justifications for everything. Caiaphas is the demon of laziness that prostitutes the altar.

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These are the traitors who crucified Christ for thirty coins of silver. The thirty coins of
silver represent all the vices and passions of the world. They traded Christ for a few
bottles at the bar. They traded Christ for the brothel of the adulterous bed. They traded
Christ for money and riches, and for the sensual life. They sold Christ for thirty coins of
silver.

Dear brothers, remember that a multitude of people asked for the crucifixion of the Lord.
All the multitudes yelled out, "Crucifixion! Crucifixion!" These are not the multitudes of
2.000 years ago. No! These people who demanded the cruc ifixion of the Lord are inside
ourselves here and now. I repeat, here and now!

These are the psychic, inhuman aggregates that we carry in our interior. All are
undesirable psychic elements that we carry inside, the red demons of Seth, living
personifications of all our psychological defects. They are the ones that cry, "Crucifixion,
Crucifixion," and the Lord is rendered to death. Who whipped Him? Are they not the
same multitudes we carry in our interior? Who are the ones that spit on Him? Are they
not the same psychic aggregates that personify our defects? Who crowned Him with a
crown of thorns? Are they not the same engenderers of the inferno which we have
created?

The account of Christic history is not of yesterday, but of today. It is the present, not
merely the past, as the illustrious ignorants believe; however, those who will understand
will work for the Christification.

The Lord is elevated to Calvary, and on top of the majestic summits of Calvary will say:
"He who believes in me shall never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. I am
the bread of life. I am the living bread. Whoever eats from my flesh and drinks from my
blood shall have eternal life, and I shall raise him from the dead in the last day. Whoever
eats from my flesh and my blood, I live in him and he in Me." -The Lord bares no malice
for anyone.- "Dear Father, in your hands I commend my spirit."

Once the grand words are pronounced, not other sound can be heard but thunder and
lightning in the midst of internal cataclysms. Once this opus of the spirit in the body is
accomplished, the Christ or Christos, the Christus, Vishnu, the one who penetrates, will
be deposited in its mystic sepulchre. I say unto you, in the name of truth and justice, that
on the third day after, after this third act, the initiate will be raised and resurrected to be
transformed into a perfect being. He who achieves this will in fact become a God, terribly
divine, beyond good and evil.

Thus the Christ, our Lord, the Spirit of Fire, descends and wants to come inside each one
of us to transform us, save us, to eliminate all those psychic aggregates that we carry in
our interior, to make out of us something distinct, to convert us into Gods.

We need to learn to see Christ, not from a merely historical point of view, but as the Fire,
as a present reality, as INRI.

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It is said that he has twelve apostles. Those twelve apostles are inside ourselves here and
now. They are twelve fundamental parts of our own being, the twelve powers inside
ourselves, within our own profound interior being. There is Peter, who is in charge of the
mysteries of Sex. There is John, who represents the Verb, the Grand word, Heru Pa Kro
At! There is also Thomas, who teaches us to control the mind. There is a Paul, who
shows us the path of Wisdom, Philosophy and Gnosis.

Inside ourselves we also find Judas. Not the Judas that renders Christ for thirty silver
coins. No! It is a different Judas. A Judas who understands profoundly the Ego. A Judas
whose gospel takes us to the elimination of the self, the "I."

There is a Philip, who is capable of showing us how to travel outside the physical body
through space. There is an Andrew, who indicates to us with precise clarity, that there are
three factors of the revolution of consciousness: To be born, that is to say, how to create
the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being; to die, that is to say, how to eliminate the
particular factors that specifically relate to us, and are each one of us; sacrifice for
humanity, Saint Andrew's Cross, indicating the mixing of Sulphur and Mercury so
indispensable for the creation of the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. This, by
means of the accomplishment of the Parlok duty, is significantly profound.

A Matthew, scientist as no other, exists in ourselves. He teaches us the pure science,

unknown to the scientist that now-a-days are in style and tomorrow pass into history.
Pure science is completely different! Only Matthew can instruct us in this. Luke, with his
Solar Gospel, is a prophet and shows us what life should be like in the Golden Age.

Each of the twelve is within ourselves, because our being has twelve fundamental parts,
the twelve apostles, here and now. Thus whoever wishes to be a magician in the true
sense of the word, will have to learn how to relate to themselves, to each part of the
twelve parts of the Being. This is only possible by burning the psychological aggregates
with INRI. As long as the Ego keeps on existing inside ourselves, the correct relation
with each one of the parts of our being will be impossible.

Then erase from your mind the idea of the twelve historical apostles. Search for them
inside yourselves. They are there! Everything is inside ourselves here and now!

The time has come for a more esoteric, more pure, more real Christianity; the time to
leave the merely historic accounts and to come to the reality of the facts.

The cross itself is deeply significant. We very well know that the vertical Phallus inside
the Uterus form the cross. We will emphasize this in other words by saying: "The
Lingam- Yoni, connected correctly, forms a cross." With this cross we need to advance on
the path that will conduct us to the Golgotha of the Father. I invite all of you to enter the
path of Christification.

Do not forget that every time the lord of Compassion comes to the world, He is hated by
three types of men. First, the elders, because they are people full of experience, they say,

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"That man is crazy. Look what he is up to. Do not listen to what he says. He does not
agree with us, with what we think. We have experience. This man destroys. He is
dangerous." Second, the scribes, that is to say, the intellectuals of all times reject Him.
Every time the Lord of Glory has come to the world, the intellectuals have been against
Him. They hate Him mortally because He does not fit in with their theories. He signifies
a danger to their system, to their sophisms, etc, etc. Third, the priests reject Him, because
all of them see Him as a danger to their respective sects.

Then, in the name of truth, I tell you that Christ is terribly revolutionary! Rebellious! He
is the Fire that comes to burn all the scummy rottenness that we carry inside. He is the
Fire that reduces to ashes all our prejudices, our preconceptions, our created interests, our
abominations, and even our experiences of a personal character.

Do you believe, in fact, that Christ can be accepted by so many millions of humans who
live in the world? You are mistaken! Every time He comes to the world, the multitudes
rise against Him. This is the cruel reality of the facts.
I am talking of the Holy Week. I say, in the name of truth, that only the Fohat seething in
us can save us.

No theory, nor any system, can take us to freedom. Those who want to pretend to
eliminate the Ego on the basis of pure reason, with the cold intellect, are being truly
reactionary beings! Conservative! Retardatory! They march on the path of the great error.

This Babylon that we carry inside ourselves, this psychological city that we carry in our
interior, the demons of lust, anger, greed, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony, etc., etc., etc.
must be destroyed with the Fire.

We need to raise the Celestial Jerusalem inside ourselves. Remember that the foundations
of the Celestial Jerusalem are twelve. And in each one of them is written the name of one
apostle. The name of the twelve apostles are in the twelve foundations. We must edify
this Jerusalem inside ourselves. But it will only be possible on the day that we destroy
with fire the Great Babylon, the Mother of all fornications and abominations of earth, the
psychological city that we carry in our interior. When we accomplish this, we will edify
the Celestial Jerusalem, here and now, inside ourselves.

I repeat, the basis of this Celestial Jerusalem are the twelve apostles. I am not referring to
those who lived 2.000 years ago as merely symbolic. No! I am talking about the twelve
apostles that exist inside ourselves. The twelve auto-conscious and independent parts of
the Being. These are the foundations of the Jerusalem that we must edify inside
ourselves.

The city of Jerusalem has twelve doors, and in each of the twelve doors there is an Angel
who represents the twelve inside of ourselves. The twelve doors are twelve precious
pearls, twelve doors of liberty, twelve doors of light and splendour, and twelve cosmic
powers. In the city, its streets, avenues, and plazas are of pure gold, the gold of the spirit
that we must create in the forge of the Cyclops.

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The city has not the necessity of external light or sun, or external moon, because the Lord
is its light, is the Fire, and He will shine inside ourselves.

The wall of the great city has 144 codes. If we add those numbers in this way: one plus
four plus four, we will have nine, which is the Ninth Sphere, the Sex. Only through
transmutation of the creative energy are we going to be able to make the Fire shine within
ourselves.

The city is of twelve thousand stadiums. It reminds us of the twelve works of Hercules,
necessary to achieve the complete intimate realization of the Being. It reminds us of the
twelve Aeons, and also of the twelve apostles. In the center of this city is the Tree of Life,
the Ten Sephiroths, the Hebraic Cabbala: Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, with the
sephirotic crown; Chesed, Geburah, Thiphereth, Netzach, Hod, Jesod, and Malkuth, the
Seven Regions of the Universe. The tree of Life allegorizes the twelve great cosmic
regions.

Happy is he who arrives at the thirteenth Aeon, where the Pistis Sophia should always be.
Inside the Celestial Jerusalem, we also find the twenty- four who prostrate to the earth,
deposit the crowns at the feet of the Lamb, that immolated Lamb of fire that shines in this
Universe, from the Aurora of Creation, from the Dawning of this Universe. The twenty-
four Elders are also twenty- four parts of our own Being.

Happy is he who can nourish oneself from the fruits of the Tree of Life, because he will
be immortal! Happy is he who can nourish himself with each one of those fruits. He who
can really nourish himself with that current of life, tha t comes from the thirteenth Aeon to
the human body, will never know illness and will be immortal.

But in order to be able to nourish oneself from the Tree of Life, it is necessary above all
to have eliminated all the psychic aggregates. Remember that the psychic aggregates are
the living personifications of our errors that alter our Vital body, and the latter damages
the Physical body when altered. This is how disease and illness take place in us.

Who is the one that causes the ulcers? Is it not Anger?

Who is the one that causes cancer? Is it not Lust?

Who is the one that causes paralysis? Is it not the gross, materialistic, selfish, and fatal
life?

The diseases are caused by the psychic aggregates, or demons of Seth, living
personifications of our errors. When all the red demons of Seth have been eliminated
with the Fire, when our own personality has been burned, then we can nourish ourselves
with the tree of Life. Life, descending from the Absolute through the thirteenth Aeons,
will penetrate into our body and it will make us immortal. Thus health is gained, and
there will never be illness.

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Useless are the scientists with all their methods of cure. If they cure the patient, he will be
sick again. It is true that the Ego injects the venom of its morbidity and rottenness inside
the organism, and destroys them! Here is the origin of all diseases! People want a remedy
to cure themselves, but as long as the Ego is alive, people will always be sick.

The hour has come to understand that we need to burn down the Babylon inside ourselves
and to edify the Jerusalem. The celestial Jerusalem, seen from afar, is like a Jasper, like
the crystal. It is the Philosopher's Stone, because he will transform himself radically. He
will have powers over fire, over the air, over the waters, and over the earth!

We need a pure, esoteric Christianity; a living Christianity, that can transform us

radically.

The Gnostic Movement, the Gnostic Church, and our Gnostic Anthropological Studies
will show humanity the Path of Liberation.

But as we are now, with the Ego alive, strong and robust, we march on the path of errors.

We need to learn to love the Fire, to work in reality, with the Mysteries of the Fire!

INVERENCIAL PEACE

Samael Aun Weor

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