"Good man, when the mind is not being aroused, or not conceiving anything, it will be independent of everything. Not lingering over all the formations (samskara) [of subject, or object relative to the body, speech and mind], the mind will be constantly void and calm, without any projections. It is like the empty space - motionless and non-abiding, non-arising and non-doing, free from either this or that. One [thus] attains the eye (essence) of the void of mind, and the body (nature) of the void of dharmas. Thus the five aggregates [of being] and the six sense-bases will be void and calm." -The Vajrasamadhi Sutra, 685 CE
SAMADHI itself has two values whether spelled with a Samekh, 60 or Shin, 300 when using Hebrew values, thus it can be either 121 (11x11), or 361 (19x19, The Circle-360 and The Point). Knowing that 11 is the number of Daath, the world of the shells, and 121 that of OCCULT, the hidden or dark realm which the archetypal 'dweller on the threshold' of which SATAN is Lord. Eleven Cubed is symbolic of the folding of the gravitational matrix of the space-time continuum (Daath/Daath), a type of wormhole. In the psychosomatic sense, this is the 'Union' and energetic interaction between subject and object. 361 as the Point in the Circle is the SOLAR number par excellence, and the POWER of THE UNIVERSE which is 'finite yet boundless' as well. 19 is also the number of the Tarot card of The Sun. And just as Crowley explains the unfolding of the monad into the Tree of Life, this also represents the Tree in its three major planes, the Supernal Triad (3), the Ruach (6) [not counting Daath], and Malkuth (1), or 'Etheric', 'Astral'/'Mental', and 'Material' planes. The Material/Malkuth as the Ego, 'I' (10) is the mind combined of all the forces in a solitary 'sphere'.
One of my own noteworthy attainments occurred in Summer of 2013. I was at a music festival, in intense heat and was overcome at one point by a jolting experience I can only explain as a circular pillar of 'O' (void/zero) rise through me and out the top of my head expanding outward infinitely but with a knowledge that this related to the Ma-Ion and the 13-fold Star-Diamond of Manifestation, the 'PERFECT-ION'. This had a lasting effect which eventually tapered off, but was one unique experience which caused me to later ground out and integrate/understand as an opening of the subtle centers or higher chakras. The Halo is a common archetype relating to this idea, as is the Solar-cycle of 12 Zodiacal signs or 'Hours' with the central 'Serpent-Bearer', or activated Kundalini. The 121 of Satan is the Zodiac wrapping around itself, the Ouroboros of the Quantum container which is the 'Holy Grail' or 'Philosopher's Stone' of the 'I' (10) of MALKUTH (111) = 121. The Eye (Ayin, 15, 'O') is the Opened Ajna which illumines the Tower (Peh, 16) with the Stellar Light (Tzaddi, 17) not from above, but from within. (Note also that the sum of 121 and 361 is 482, which Grant notes in The Ninth Arch is the value of LBNTh, the actual 'Stone', and its function: ASPQLRIA, meaning 'looking-glass or (skrying) mirror'. This obviously relates to THE BLACK EGG of Ma-Ion, as well as the Ρομβος, 'Rhombus', 'Diamond', or 'Magic Wheel'. See below for Carl Jung's notes on the relation betwen the 4/Diamond and the O/Circle-Egg.)
As Crowley has shown, when used logically and consistently, mathematics can help as a tool of the Initiate to separate the astral light from the sticky magick 'web' of things, and though it is highly useful for breaking down and analyzing information and energy-patterns it always leads back to itself, the 'Aleph-Zero Point'. (Note 438, 'PERFECTION' + 121, 'SAMADHI', + 107, 'MA-ION' = 666 = 'A HOLLOW 103 PILLAR'. 103 is the 13 warding the 'O', Ophiuchus with the Egg of the Universe. 103 is MABYN, the Crowned Babe in the Egg.)
"Kircher's system shows certain
affinities with our series of quaternios. Thus the Second Monad is a duality
consisting of opposites, corresponding to the angelic world that was split by
Lucifer's fall. Another significant analogy is that Kircher conceives his
schema as a cycle set in motion by God as the prime cause, and unfolding out of
itself, but brought back to God again through the activity of human
understanding, so that the end returns once more to the beginning. This, too,
is an analogy of our formula. The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus
as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the
snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
Just as the central idea of the lapis Philosophorum plainly signifies the self,
so the opus with its countless symbols illustrates the process of
individuation, the step-by-step development of the self from an unconscious
state to a conscious one. That is why the lapis, as prima materia, stands at
the beginning of the process as well as at the end. [113] According to Michael
Maier, the gold, another synonym for the self, comes from the opus
circulatorium of the sun.
This circle is "the line that runs back upon itself (like the serpent that with its head bites its own tail), wherein that eternal painter and potter, God, may be discerned." [114] In this circle, Nature "has related the four qualities to one another and drawn, as it were, an equilateral square, since contraries are bound together by contraries, and enemies by enemies, with the same everlasting bonds." Maier compares this squaring of the circle to the "homo quadratus," the four-square man, who "remains himself" come weal come woe. [115] He calls it the "golden house, the twice-bisected circle, the four-eornered phalanx, the rampart, the 6ty wall, the four-sided line of battle." [116] This circle is a magic circle consisting of the union of opposites, "immune to all injury.
Independently of Western tradition, the same idea of the circular opus can be found in Chinese alchemy: "When the light is made to move in a circle, all the energies of heaven and earth, of the light and the dark, are crystallized," says the text of the Golden Flower. [117]" -Aion, Ch. 14, C.G. Jung
Carl
Jung on the Symbol of the “Diamond.”
Professor Jung: As a matter of fact, it does have something to do with consciousness. Could you give more details about it?
Participant: The transparent stone refers to the diamond. It is refined earth, the epitome of refined earth. The earth is dark, gloomy, nontransparent, and starts to become transparent in the stone. Although the stone is earth, hardest earth, it assumes the character of transparent water. We speak of a diamond “of the first water.” Because of its transparency, the philosopher’s stone is also called vitrum aureum (the golden glass) or vitrum malleabile (the malleable glass). In the Book of Revelation it says that the streets of the new Jerusalem were like golden glass. [Rev. 21:21]
Professor Jung:
So it is the same idea as in alchemy—that the earth had been transformed into a
transparent, waterlike, yet hard and imperishable, incorruptible structure.
Therefore, the philosopher’s stone is the expression of the highest perfection
of the earthly body, and, therefore, you also find the idea that the lapis
philosophorum is man himself, that is, his corpus glorificatum, his body at the
Resurrection.
This immortal body is the subtle body that had left the physical body and is
beyond corruption.
The diamond, the hardest mineral, is synonymous with the lapis philosophorum.
This is ancient metaphysics, old speculation in symbolic form.
What does this mean psychologically?
It was mentioned that the diaphanitas and the stoniness, the inelasticity, could have to do with the nature of consciousness. You can find this connection in the old texts of alchemy, the idea, that is, that the stone is the product of a mental operation, the equivalent, so to speak, of enlightenment.
Therefore the stone says in a Hermetic text: “I create the light, the light that is greater than all other lights in the world.” So what is actually meant is a phenomenon of consciousness, a product of human effort, and at the same time a donum gratiae, a gift of God’s grace. It is always stressed that it is impossible to do it on one’s own, it can only be given per gratiam dei, but man still has to make the effort to make this structure. It originally was a head, that is, a consciousness that was in the head.
It is symbolized as the head of Osiris that was washed ashore from the sea and venerated by the women of Byblos.
It was mentioned that the diaphanitas and the stoniness, the inelasticity, could have to do with the nature of consciousness. You can find this connection in the old texts of alchemy, the idea, that is, that the stone is the product of a mental operation, the equivalent, so to speak, of enlightenment.
Therefore the stone says in a Hermetic text: “I create the light, the light that is greater than all other lights in the world.” So what is actually meant is a phenomenon of consciousness, a product of human effort, and at the same time a donum gratiae, a gift of God’s grace. It is always stressed that it is impossible to do it on one’s own, it can only be given per gratiam dei, but man still has to make the effort to make this structure. It originally was a head, that is, a consciousness that was in the head.
It is symbolized as the head of Osiris that was washed ashore from the sea and venerated by the women of Byblos.
This severed head, the so-called round element, is the epitome of perfection. A consciousness has crystallized that is imperturbable, a detached
consciousness, characterized by wholeness (represented by roundness).
Participant: In the legend of Perseus, too, we find this idea, in the severed head of the Gorgon. Here, roundness is linked to the mortification of the mother.
Professor Jung: Yes, quite right. In the stars you find the constellation of Perseus with the Gorgon’s head above the sign of Taurus. The great Gorgon’s head is the horrible face entwined by snakes; it is the face of the past in front of which we are petrified. The fear it provokes can be traced back to the fear of the devouring mother, the horror of this; for this face can turn you into dead earth again. This danger was averted by Perseus by cutting the Gorgon’s throat with a fiery sword, a diamond sword.
This would mean that the danger is averted by the intervention of
consciousness, of thinking; because it was an act of consciousness that
detached him from that horror.
When the flood of blackness is later inundating him again, he can free himself
from it, because he cut the head of the horrible mother.
You find a similar standpoint in the philosophy of the Upanishads; the
knowledge about Atman liberates from the law of the earth.
So the head is that round thing, originally hidden in matter, that Zosimos
called the Omega element.
That’s why the ancient philosophers called themselves “children of the golden
head.”
This was the opposite of the caput mortuum or caput corvi,which is the sediment
that precipitates, or the opposite of nigredo.
This caput aureum, however, is the end product of the process.It is also round, it is the wholeness, and it is a transparent stone. ~Carl
Jung, Children’s Dreams Seminar, Pages 221-223
