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- THE THIRD MASTER KEY: KINETIC ENERGY -

Raz Iyahu

In the past we’ve generally talked about Three Keys being the source of all spiritual practices.

The first Key we called Will: the ability to focus the mind on a subject or object (or nothing at all) for an extended period and without mental ‘straying’ which is the strength that gives the awareness power to be present. This Key is used for Mental Alchemy (Polarization, Vibration, etc.), the process by which we can direct our thoughts toward any particular goal with pinpoint accuracy and absolute unmovable power. This Will is the resolute faculty that separates the common ‘daydreamer’ from the intensely powerful spiritual practitioner, the Magickal Alchemist.

The second Key we called Intention, which is the purpose behind the Will, meaning that if one becomes totally immersed in single-pointed focus at a desired object (the object here can be a chakra, tummo, the central channel, a material external object or goal like earning money or gaining knowledge, a prayer, an idea or new concept, basically anything you can direct your attention towards), then the Intention is what desired outcome is to be accomplished by this powerful focus of Will. Intention tells Will how to unify with the object in focus and for what purpose. These two go hand in hand, one being the steering wheel or direction desired (Will) and the other the engine or the power to ‘get there’ (Intention).

The third Key to explore is called Kinetic Energy or Vitality. Exploring the analogy of a car, we say that Will is likened to the steering mechanism or focused direction which must be held firmly in place to get to the desired destination; Intention being the engine or power that determines the speed and strength at which the vehicle arrives; and finally we have Kinetic Energy or Vitality which is the fuel that gives the system the necessary nourishment to actually move forward and steer accurately.

Kinetic energy or vitality, like the other two Keys, is absolutely essential to achieving the goal of any practitioner; perfected awareness, heightened bliss and perceptions which transcend the 5 tactile senses, etc. It doesn’t matter what the goal is — obtaining worldly material objects, mastering emotions, building mental strength and focus or attaining spiritual awareness and presence — if Vitality or active Kinetic Energy is not accumulated and stored you can only reach so far, you will hit a ceiling, a limitation on what can be achieved. In Kabbalah for example, Nefesh is a certain kind of spiritual energy or awareness, and with this lowest or weakest kind of energy only base worldly perception is possible. Ruach, however, is the higher vital spiritual energy by which the practitioner can elevate themselves into the higher state of perception called Neshama, or pure soul. This intermediate energy can be likened to Vitality in some regard.

So the two big questions here are, how does one stop wasting Vitality, and how can one gain more of it to strengthen and maximize the other Keys? First, we should understand that all Three Keys work together very intimately. In fact, at some point in a practitioner’s process, these Keys are working in total harmony and unity with each other as One. However, for the initiate there must be a separation of these things in order to successfully recognize them and work with them on their own until they later become one cohesive machine — in the same way the engine, the steering mechanism and the fuel system are built separately before they work harmoniously together as a single vehicle.

How does one stop wasting the Kinetic Energy that is necessary to fuel Will and Intention? Let’s divide the body up into three parts for the sake of investigating the loss of Vitality.

First, we have the mind or thoughts. When a practitioner is filled with incessant thinking, over analyzing, random unconscious imaginings or daydreaming, this is a major ‘burning away’ of Vitality. The person who leaps from one uncontrollable thought to another, fantasizing and basically allowing the ‘animal mind’ to drag him or her all over the place, is wasting vital energy. To stop this process, the practice of bringing the mind to single pointed awareness is key. Letting go, feeling the present moment and being awareness instead of alert is the first way in which we can begin to reserve Vitality.

Next, we have the emotions, an even bigger drain on Kinetic Energy. If one is hateful, envious, filled with fear or wrath, has anxiety or anger, etc., then Vitality is being drained away quickly. This is why one feels tired and weary after an argument or experiencing high stress. To avoid this kind of loss, one must remember that some illusory thought has kindled a deeper, stronger illusory emotion. Because the thought was not recognized consciously and stopped quickly enough, the stronger energy of the emotions became activated and caused even more Vital energy loss. Hatred, anger, stress, and depression has never helped anyone to achieve anything; the only thing these kinds of energies do is create Vitality loss in the system, and the negativity causes blockages in the energy system itself.

Finally, we have the physical body. The physical body drains Vitality when fantasies and illusory thinking become tied to emotions, which are then tied to actions. Actions are a huge drain of Vitality, which is why after a strenuous workout, eventually the practitioner will need deep sleep to ‘recover’. Action also means physiological action, meaning that the nervous system and the endocrine system will be harmfully effected when negative thoughts and emotions are allowed to pervade the system. Unfortunately, the nervous system and the endocrine system, when drained of Vitality, also impact the manner is which we think and feel — therefore we have a perpetuating and exponential drain as we continue to allow harmful thoughts and emotions hurt our physiological system, and a negative feedback loop is generated.

So we know what causes the loss of Kinetic Energy, which is the fuel for Will and Intention. But how can one generate more Vitality to help propel the strength and performance of the other two Keys?

In general there are three ways that one attains Vitality:

• Breath. Certain kinds of effective breathing brings pranic energy into the body, and through this daily practice one can add Vitality to the vessel.
• Food. The kinds of food and the amounts of food one eats directly effects the strength of Kinetic Energy the mind, heart and body has access to during the day.
• Sexual Energy. The loss of sexual fluid depletes the body not only of nutrients and minerals, but forces the entire endocrine system to work overtime to return the sexual energy back to normal. It takes 28 days (a full lunar cycle) for the body to fully recover from a single ejaculation and because of this, most people are continuously at a hyper-loss of the Kundalini reserves which drive spiritual energy throughout the body. This doesn’t mean that proper sexual relationships between two people are harmful or that orgasm itself is harmful necessarily, it just means they can be if not understood and used properly. (More on all of this in a future article.)

Through proper breathing, understanding the elements and centers, nutritious food and correct amounts and proper use of sexual energy, the practitioner will reserve their Vital Energy. Later, the ultimate practice can be harnessed and the practitioner can learn how to actually generate spiritual Kinetic Energy (Holy Spirit, or Holy Fire Tummo, Chandali, Kundalini, etc.) for the sake of propelling them into the spiritual realms of perception and power. All of these topics will be discussed in future articles.

To conclude, the fundamental practices of strengthening the Three Keys of Will, Intention and Vitality are the basic Initiate practices which must first be used in order to prepare the vehicle for the more advanced applications like Astral Projection, Tummo/Kundalini, Third Eye Awakening, the Four Blisses, etc. Without first working with these, a practitioner can potentially apply all kinds of spiritual practices for decades without experiencing any real accomplishments that transcend into their everyday lives. A person who has a storehouse of Vitality has the ability to use that Kinetic Energy to enhance their single-pointed awareness, bring their emotions to balance and create a strong, vibrant body. These people are always happy, settled, unaffected by worldly drama and totally present — the perfect conditions to advance into the deepest levels of spiritual attainment.

We will cover all of these techniques in detail at TheLucidSky.com soon.

(stay tuned…)

- THE SECOND MASTER KEY : INTENTION -

Raz Iyahu

Understanding and utilizing the Three Keys is essential for the spiritual practitioner who seeks self evolution, but are only the core tools used in conjunction with the actual ‘techniques’ or practices. For example, if one were practicing Kundalini Tantra with the goal of awakening the great Shakti fire within, it would require a very steady awareness (of the mind), a vibrant Intention (of the heart) and an ever-increasing storehouse of Vital Force (Kinetic Energy). This same universal concept can be applied to any endeavor; even in manifesting here in the physical realm. However, for the sake of these general articles which just brush over these ideas, we will stick to the loftiest application for humanity — spiritual evolution.

Therefore, first the practitioner must strengthen the Three Keys through diligent awareness and application of them. Then, when put into motion together with certain ‘techniques’ or processes within oneself, their combined application helps achieve a variety of outcomes with swiftness and seamless effort.

We have already explored the first key called ‘Will’ in basic detail and how the ability of this Key is crucial to strengthening awareness and achieving a more powerful single pointed focus (presence). This helps the practitioner achieve a kind of ‘distance’ between the mind’s incessant thinking and the perfect objective awareness. The first Key helps us remove the delusional attachment to these undulating unconscious thoughts which interrupt our focus and weaken our ability to achieve desired goals and objectives (like simply being totally present). When we notice the mental noise as just that, it helps us liberate from illusory imaginings, projections and fantasies which we typically attach to as truth and thus act on such fantasies, leading inevitably to undesirable consequences in our life.

Here, however, we will explore the key that is so often missed in most spiritual paths, the Second Key called Intention.

First we have to ask, ‘why make the distinction between Will, Intention and Vital Force (Kinetic Energy)?’ It is important that the practitioner understand clearly through self observation and practice that, although the Three Keys inevitably ‘feel’ united together as one part of the conscious awareness (because they are), in the beginning it’s important to see them distinctly and work on them separately to help diagnose deficiency and rectify or adjust the Keys individually for greater balance.

As an example of imbalance, some may have a strong Will by nature: they can focus and study an object very closely without losing train of thought in silly mental noise, but have weak Intention, the strength to find passion and drive to accomplish. Such people could be called ‘dry intellectuals’.

Others may have enormous Intention and their passions win over everyone around them because of their drive and ambition toward various goals. However, if they lack Will, their passions are misdirected and fleeting, one moment they are driven toward some desire, but soon after, they lose focus and head after another desire like a fire hose without a person to control it, dousing everything with water instead of efficiently directing it at the fire itself. Finally, the Third Key is almost always missed, the ability to retain Vital Force or Kinetic Energy; this Key we will explore in a future article.

We must understand that for the spiritual practitioner to attain anything at all, a change in state must occur, this is clear. This means that the current identity that the practitioner associates with day to day and moment to moment is the very thing generating their current vibration. Who we believe we are in this moment (the illusory small self’s collection of memories and projections) is linked to some combination of attributes which together harmonize to create a specific signature ‘wave’ or vibration.

That vibration, not the outside macrocosmic wave we experience, is really what generates our state of awareness and perception, and more importantly the level of ‘closeness’ to the higher hidden realms. The more we mimic the higher realms of reality, the more we draw toward them. So therefore, in order to perceive an entirely different plane of awareness, one must entirely change these combinations of energy to create a whole new vibration, one that more resembles the place they wish to experience. In order to ‘ascend’ to a higher plane of awareness, one must change the state of vibration within; it’s really very simple. This inner change of vibration is altered by Intention.

But let’s look a bit closer. In Kabbalah for example, there are two kinds of Lights (Ohr) that are directly related to the spiritual vessel (you). One is called Ohr Hassidim (intention to Love or be Kind, bestow toward others) and the other Ohr Hochma (the Light of Spiritual Revelation, highest Wisdom) In the Kabbalistic tradition, just like every other mystical tradition, in order to fill the Vessel with more Light of Hochma or spiritual connection in the higher realms of consciousness, room must be created in the vessel by the Light of Hassidim or Love, Kindness, and the Bestowing nature. Because this Light of Kindness or Mercy (Love) is more like the higher state, it creates additional room in the vessel by which a stronger Light (energy) can be filled thus elevating the perception and the strength of awareness of the vessel itself. These two things work in conjunction with each other and the Light of Love or Kindness is put into application by Intention… which is to change the current state of the small self or egoic reception without consideration of others.

Why is this the case, that the nature of the vessel must change in order to expand its perception? Because our core nature at the moment is to egoically receive as much as we can, even at the expense of another. In the lower state of egoic identity, most people in our world exist without spiritual clarity or connection, and we feel so separated from everything and everyone that we really believe we are inclusive of the All or the whole universe itself. We have no sense of the spiritual awareness because of this egoic identity because this self generated state cuts us off from it entirely. Now as science catches up with the ancient wisdom, even it tells us that all things are truly connected through vibration, but our illusory programming — the clothing that is created by a myriad of false memories and projections of the mind and body — actually hides this connection from us. Each of us has created the separation through the belief that we are, in essence, a collection of societal experiences stacked together to create the objective small self, and this is the very thing that must change if we are to experience the truth of reality, the highest state of consciousness. We simply cannot perceive the teeming vibration of connected life all around us in our current state because we have cut ourselves off through delusion of material sense impressions that we have mistakenly associated with to who we really are.

This is why Intention, the desire to alter this false egoic self, means that one must not only have a strong Intention to change who we believe we are, but must also have a strong Will (awareness) in order to actually view how the mind creates and constantly reinforces that false identity. Forms, conditions, and experiences are all stored within the mind and body and instead of seeing them as they are, fleeting transient perceptions, we take them on as ourselves. In truth, you are shifting and changing all the time because of these sensory memories; you are not the same person as you were yesterday and so on. This temporal and transient self insulates our true being from the current of spiritual reality vibrating all around us.

Because of this disconnection, we suffer greatly from the loss of direct knowledge of our infinite nature; we feel small, powerless and confused in fear. But once this veil is lifted by letting go of this illusory self through Intention, we reveal the true state of things, and fear and all of its negative self-serving forms of vibration are no longer necessary. In clearly seeing and letting go of the temporal idea of ourselves, we change the very nature of the frequency that we emit and as stated previously, like attracts like. When love, kindness and bestowal is built through Intention and Will, we are instantly attracted to the similar vibratory frequencies of the higher realms of reality.

There is simply no way of achieving any spiritual evolution at all without consciously having a firm Intention to lose the delusional egoic identity of the transient and temporal self. Intention working with Will, the ability to remain aware of our true state coupled with the fuel of Vitality leads to a breaking of the veils that conceal this world from the others.

The fuel that drives both of these tools is called Vitality or Kinetic Energy, without which the strength to make these revelations requires extreme efforts. With a storehouse of Kinetic Energy, these other processes become much more easily attained. Without this Kinetic Energy reserve, the path can be impossibly painful and difficult.

More to come…