Mystress Angelique Serpent. The Vault. Mystery Schools.

Judging Occultism as an inferior path is showing lack of faith in Divine Will. Limitless manifestation needs every kind of people, Witches and Buddhas both. All roads lead to Rome, because K. is stronger than any temporary beliefs in limitation. Brainwashing doesn't work, on Kundalites, in the long term. Attempts to persuade only bring up Karma to be washed away, then you have a shiny clean brain that sparkles with light.

I tend to think some of what is labeled "occult" mysticism tends to get a bad rap because it is taken out of context and misunderstood. "Occult" is just another word for "secret", and folks usually keep secrets coz they expect to be misunderstood. They will be too, coz most Kundalites know, the words of religion are codes for experiential knowings that cannot really be described in words, only approximately pointed at. The infinite is bigger than all of our ideas about it.

It is really only the workings of the lower chakras that fit readily into "Teaching", the higher ones are indescribable.. yet in my comparative studies of world religions, it really does seem like "All roads lead to Rome". The paths may be different, but the destination is the same.

When the Student is ready, the Teacher appears. Students choose their teachers, and attract to themselves the experiences they need.

In typical Mystery Schools, the novice student is taught a lot of signs and symbols, where each candle goes or the proper way to recite the mantras, or approach the book or wave the incense. Students always make easy things hard, and faith is at first built by experience.

If the students already believed in themselves, they would not be attending a Mystery school. So, at the first level faith is placed in externals, rituals and Gods.

The steps of thought-word-deed are taken and various manifestations are created, so the student begins to believe in Magic. The veil begins to thin. At this level, entities and Old Gods are revered by the student, but are also used as "Astral Baby sitters" by the teacher. They are chosen in resonance with the student's personality type, or they present themselves and are tested. Because astral entities live "close to home", they are able to get the student's attention in the physical and support them with positive reminders 24/7 where a human teacher in linearity cannot.

Contact with them is good ESP practice, and a sharpening stone for fledgling discernment. Students keep a diary of the contact and share it with the Teacher, who monitors it, and checks intuitively to make certain the entities are being good baby sitters and not playing too many pranks. Interpreting the information for the student. Lessons and pranks taught by entities are always reflected of the student's own issues, and thus they can be very instructive in bringing out the student's weak points and Karmic issues to be resolved. The student is learning to navigate the astral realms, and the entity plays tour guide and bodyguard. The astral is the playground where personal issues are manifested to be resolved, just as some Kundalites experience a lot of their process thru dreams.

Better there, than in the "real world". They learn to focus the power of their free will into manifestation, and they learn to surrender to higher guidance. By that combination, they learn "be careful what you pray for", by observing their results. The monkey mind ego is given a supervised chance to play with the power of manifestation, so it can understand experientially that it's not smart enough to do that, and life works better if you let the Infinite Mind make the decisions.

At the initiation to the second Degree, the student is told that most of the dogmatic stuff from in the first level no longer matters, and it doesn't matter where the candles go.. they can forget it, because it was only scaffolding to build faith, and now the faith is built, the scaffolding can be dismantled as much as the student is comfortable with. The focus is turned towards the student's own inner light and wisdom, which at this point is manifesting more strongly than their self doubt. The balance of faith has been increased, and insecurity has decreased.

The Old Gods and archetypes are universal on the collective level of the unconscious. An second level the Students understand that they are equals with the Old Gods and relate to them differently.. getting to know many of them, to understand the aspects of consciousness they represent, as reflections of themselves. They still treat them with respect, as a teacher one has graduated from... they are continuing to learn respect for all creatures, good manners and spiritual responsibility... but they are now "above" the entities, in that they recognise that the entities have limitations that an embodied human spirit does not have.

Attaining third degree may take many years, but the initiation is essentially a recognition that the person has become a vessel of the Divine. The ritual generally includes a ritual death, which may be simply a change of name, or something more elaborate. The ritual death breaks a lot of attachments, and generally serves to clear most of the remaining Karmic issues, or at least to turn them loose, and synchronous life events will bring them up to be resolved within the year or so, following.

A Master is considered worthy to start their own Mystery School or Ashram or Coven or type of Yoga, because they have become a clear vessel of Divine Will and wisdom. They are free to use or discard what they have been taught, as Spirit moves them. They are not bound by the rituals and dogma that were the crutches of faith to get them to surrender themselves.

"Occult" Mystery Schools have their own explorations of polarity, and duality. Generally they teach students the power of their own free will, first, to get them past the cultural victim attitudes and into a healthy self-confidence. Most students who would attend an "occult" Mystery School are not necessarily seeking enlightenment. More likely they are seeking power. However, Goddess always wins.. power is a carrot, that draws them in, but they find surrender pretty quick when they get a taste of power, and discover what goes around comes around. Then, they learn the wisdom of surrendering the choices their free will would make, to Divine Will.

As I say, it is only the lessons of the lower chakras that can be taught. Once an individual has healthy self confidence. awareness of the power of thought and perception, and is grounded in the wisdom of surrender, they are well prepared to have the K-fire itself carry them thru the wordless mysteries of the higher knowledge.

I try to speak to people in words and paradigms they can comprehend. According to what is in their path, as best I can "read" it with my intuition.

Kundalini has often been compared to Schizophrenia, and the therapy for Schizophrenics is to support them in their process, give their impulses and delusions approval and validation so they remain in a positive state, and not judge them or try to change their passing obsessions with aggressive intervention. Their own unconscious knows what it is doing, better than a hundred psychiatrists, and with gentle support the process completes itself and an old damaged ego is gently traded for a shiny new whole one.

Kundalites are generally led to the list by synchronicity, and that same synchronicity will always make sure they get whatever their process needs, in the moment.

The Kundalini knows what it is doing, but the ego wants reasons to barter for it's surrender. The truth of the reasons are not important: whatever you believe in, will work. The important thing is the surrender. If the reasons and rituals will ease the process of surrender by dispelling some fear, then they serve. If someone feels better for discovering they are not the only one worrying about entities, then the list has served.