I Am An Empath
The Keys to the Ferrari - Part Two
The Overview and the Veil of Isis
The wise doctor above wrote a great deal about empathy and being an empath but there are “perceived” flaws to being emotionally open to the world. These flaws have been addressed already in the past many times over and many thousands of years ago. Instructions have been given in esoteric mystery schools since ancient Egypt that offer us wisdom in avoiding the pitfalls of taking our father’s fiery chariot (the human soul) for a spin in the heavens. Teachings that help build a solid foundation for entering into the worlds that are revealed only through the elevation of our emotional resonance (ascension). In the past people were not usually born awakened to their empathic intelligence and the collective emotional IQ (EI) was low. So learning these lessons could take a lifetime. In this day and age the “processor” or clock speed of human consciousness has increased to such a degree that evolution is pushing us forward toward an awakening as a species into a higher world of perception. Such things as the internet, brought about through the invention of HTML, have only escalated the unfoldment of this process. Acts such as “Freedom of Speech” are the manifestation of some-thing happening in the human collective unconscious, but we will get to that later.
Let us discuss something called the overview. There are a couple of variables in my own personal perception that stand out clearly when I think of being an empath. The overview and another occulted ideal, The Veil of Isis. The overview is our ability to see ourselves and our own emotional attachments and behaviors from a perspective outside our selves. This allows us to separate illusions from reality and purge ourselves of what is non-essential to our spiritual well-being. A friend has reminded me that there are two ways to do this, with creative reasoning and using your imagination through meditation and another more logical approach that has been summed up best as “Occam’s Razor.” I am going to address the former here as I am a creative thinker and operate out of my heart using creative language and metaphor to speak with the soul rather than the mind itself through logic. Both paths if followed with humility and honesty and devotion to truth and love for life in all its manifestations will lead to enlightenment. These are methods used to essentially psycho-analyze yourself.
There is only ONE reality. Only one god. From this moment forth I lay claim to creative license and thus am exempt from all logical arguments against me. Take comfort and rest assured that what I reveal is clothed in truth and any resistance that arises between what I say and what you hear is because of a misunderstanding or a mistranslation of the metaphors I use to point toward the inner processes of the human soul. By laying claim to the mantle of truth to move against this re-presentation is only to harm yourself. I mean this with no negative or egotistic connotation. Seek to understand and not criticize or reject outright what is said here. (smiles softly)
Today many young people are being born wide open to their emotional body of intelligence and cannot shut out the battering of subconscious forces that assail them. Since they have not developed the proper techniques for dealing with these energies they become saturated with negative forces that damage them deeply, forces they do not know how to dispel. A wall within the human collective unconscious is eroding and it is time for science to take the reins and address this with sincerity and honesty. In the past those who have “administered” science have feared taking on such a task because it blurs the lines between religion and science, between metaphor and logic. Now however, our children’s well-being is at stake, perhaps the well being of our entire race is in jeopardy.
The time has come for the torch to be passed. The day is here for science to take the “leap from the lions mouth” and allow the cradle that holds the human soul to move out of the corruption of religious ignorance and into the light. Life IS spiritual. Jesus IS the world. We ARE the gods. In the past the metaphors used to convey an understanding of the human soul were confused as FACTS and in this context mythology and spirituality do not make sense. It becomes a dead thing that only confuses the world and creates war and chaos. The archetypes as described by Carl Jung and (more clearly) Joseph Campbell are the Rosetta stone to translating religious experiences and myth into a form tangible enough for science to grasp. In this way metaphor can be separated from fact and the human collective unconscious can be studied properly without the stigma of personal beliefs. Belief can be added post-priori by each student at their own leisure. The cornerstone has been laid for merger of two world views.
Let’s look at a passage from Rudolph Steiner’s book “How to Know Higher Worlds” that addresses the most simple way to approach to develop the overview that will help shield us from the pitfalls of evolution. When reading this you may think “this is too simple to be anything of value” but I assure you, life’s greatest mysteries are hidden in plain sight. Life’s secrets are in its simplicities. It’s not about whether you understand with your mind but how deeply you embody that understanding in your heart.
The Overview
“As students of the spirit, we must set aside a brief period of time in daily life in which to focus on things that are quite different from the objects of our daily activity. The kind of activity we engage in must also differ from what occupies the rest of our day. This is not to say, however, that what we do in the minutes we have set aside is unconnected with the content of our daily work. On the contrary, we soon realize that, if approached in the right way, such moments give us the full strength for completing our daily tasks. We need not fear that following this rule will actually take time away from our duties. If someone really cannot spare any more time, five minutes a day are sufficient. What matters is how those five minutes are used.
In these moments we should tear ourselves completely out of our everyday life. Our thinking and feeling lives should have a quite different coloring than they usually have. We should allow our joys, sorrows, worries, experiences, and actions to pass before our soul. But our attitude toward these should be one of looking at everything we have experienced from a higher point of view. Consider, in ordinary life, how differently we perceive what other people have experienced or done from the way we perceive what we ourselves have experienced or done. This must be so. We are still interwoven with what we experience or do, but we are only onlookers of other people’s experiences or acts. In the time we have set aside for ourselves, then, we must strive to view and judge our own experiences and actions as though they belonged to another person.
Viewing ourselves as strangers
As students of higher knowledge we must find the strength to view ourselves as we would view strangers. We must face ourselves with the inner tranquility of a judge. If we achieve this, our own experiences will reveal themselves in a new light. As long as we are still woven into our experiences, and stand within them, we will remain as attached to the nonessential as to the essential. But once we have attained the inner peace of the overview, the nonessential separates itself from the essential. Sorrow and joy, every thought, every decision will look different when we stand over against ourselves in this way. It is as though we spent the whole day somewhere and saw everything, small and large, at close range, and then in the evening climbed a neighboring hill and enjoyed an overview of the whole place at once. Then the various parts of the town and their relationships to each other would appear very different from when we stood among them.
As we progress in this direction, we become increasingly able to control the effect that impressions from the outer world have upon us. For example, we may hear someone say something to hurt or anger us. Before we began esoteric training, this would have made us feel hurt or anger. Now, however, because we are on the path of inner development, we can take the hurtful or annoying sting out of another’s words before it finds its way into our inner being. Another example: before beginning to follow this path, we may have been quick to lose our patience when we had to wait for something. But now, having started on the path and become pupils in a school of esoteric study, we imbue ourselves in our contemplative moments so fully with the realization that most impatience is futile that, whenever we feel any impatience, it immediately calls this realization to mind. The impatience that was about to take root thus disappears, and the time we would otherwise have wasted in expressions of impatience can now be filled with some useful observation that we may make while we wait.”
A bliss bestowing world
“Something else is also needed. When we look upon ourselves as strangers it is still only ourselves that we are contemplating. We see the experiences and actions connected to us by the particular course of life we have grown through. But we must go beyond that. We must rise to see the purely human level that no longer has anything to do with our own particular situation. We must reach the point of contemplating those things that concern us as human beings as such, completely independent of the circumstances and conditions of our particular life.
As we do this, something comes to life in us that transcends what is personal or individual. Our view is directed toward worlds higher than those our everyday life brings us. We begin to feel, to experience, that we belong to these higher worlds of which our senses and everyday activities can tell us nothing. The center of our being shifts inward. We listen to the voices that speak within us in our moments of serenity. Inwardly, we associate with the spiritual world. Removed from our daily round, we become deaf to its noise. Everything around us grows still. We put aside everything that reminds us of outer impressions. Quiet, inward contemplation and dialog with the purely spiritual world completely fill our soul. For students of the spirit, this quiet contemplation must become a necessity of life. At first, we are wholly absorbed in a world of thought. We must develop a living feeling for this silent thinking activity.
We must learn to love what streams toward us from the spirit. Then we shall soon cease to accept this world of thought as less real than the everyday life surrounding us. Instead, we will begin to work with our thoughts as we do with material objects. And then the moment will approach when we begin to realize that what is revealed to us in the silence of inner thinking activity is more real than the physical objects around us. We experience that life speaks in this world of thoughts. We realize that thoughts are not mere shadow pictures and that hidden beings speak to us through thoughts. Out of the silence something begins to speak to us. Previously we could hear speech only with our ears, but now words resound in our souls. An inner speech, an inner word, is disclosed to us. The first time we experience this we feel supremely blessed. Our outer world is suffused with an inner light. A second life begins for us. A divine, bliss-bestowing world streams through us.” – Rudolph Steiner “How to Know Higher Worlds”
The Buddha referred to this as the immovable spot or the seat of the soul. When one attains mastery of it the mind becomes “Zen” or peaceful like a calm mountain lake that reflects the moon and everything that passes by just as it is. The lake doesn’t add to or take away from it. It doesn’t try to hold on to the moon as it passes, it lets it go and by doing so the moon and lake “reflect” into each other as they pass. There is no desire to hold on or fear to run away. Just a peaceful clear commune of essence is shared between the two bodies.
Hence the Zen saying “Moon in the pond, blossom in the sky.”
This is the prerequisite for almost all inner work in esoteric study because it creates a foundation to which we can return to that frees us from illusions and allows us to “separate” the emotions of others from our own and our own emotional distortion of reality from direct perception of the world. In this way we can see reality just the way it is and not how “we” want it to be. Like Occam’s razor, this is a kind of “call to town” token like those you find in video games that “evac” you safely out of danger. It is the most common tool we use in our ascent toward a higher more liberated state of consciousness.
The Veil of Isis
"By the bright circle of the golden sun,
By the bright courses of the errant moon,
By the dread potency of every star,
In the mysterious Zodiac's burning girth,
By each and all of these supernal signs,
We do adjure thee, with this trusty blade
To guard yon central oak, whose holy stem,
Involves the spirit of high Taranis:
Be this thy charge." – MASON
The Parting of the Veil, Piercing of the Veil, Rending of the Veil or Lifting of the Veil refers, in the Western mystery tradition and contemporary witchcraft, to opening the "veil" of matter, thus gaining entry to a state of spiritual awareness in which the mysteries of nature are revealed. It is a reference to the mythical Veil of Isis, regarding which Plutarch records an inscription at the shrine of Neith-Isis-Minerva at Sais: “I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.” H. P. Blavatsky's famous book on occultism, Isis Unveiled is also a reference to this.
It is also a reference to the Gospel of Mark 15:38. In ceremonial magic, the Sign of the Rending of the Veil is a symbolic gesture performed by the magician with the intention of creating such an opening. It is performed starting with the arms extended forwards and hands flat against each other (either palm to palm or back to back), then spreading the hands apart with a rending motion until the arms point out to both sides and the body is in a T shape. After the working is complete, the magician will typically perform the corresponding Sign of the Closing of the Veil, which has the same movements in reverse.
Notice in the picture below the archetypal images: The parting of the Veil, the Crystal Sea, and the union of opposites.
There is no need to go into an extensive explanation of occult science about this concept here. I do feel the Veil of Isis needs to be mentioned however so I will make it brief. There was a time in the past of human existence when we didn’t have the “ego” we do today. It simply did NOT exist the way it does today on either an individual or collective level. You can arrive at an understanding of the Veil by simply using techniques employed by psycho-therapists to analyze the mythologies and religions of the world through reading the metaphorical meanings hidden within them. There is nothing “pseudo-scientific” about it whatsoever. When I personally follow the myths back into the collective unconscious of our species I find that there is a point that is quite clear where the ego or serpent, as it is re-presented in myth, appears on the tree of life (human collective unconscious). It takes place many thousands of years ago in a certain garden we all know about. Now take into consideration that I am analyzing the mind of our race by reading the metaphors and this is not FACT in any way. There is something we call archetypes and these universal or foundational ideas rise up within us from the collective unconscious and manifest into human cultural experience shaping everything we do (read my post on them). Lucifer or the serpent is an archetype that is metaphor for the force of consciousness or within consciousness that gave birth (stimulated growth) to the human collective ego. Before the “fall” from the garden we lived in a state of bliss because in some ways we were “submerged” into the subconscious mind and joined with it. Life was like a dream to us at that time (see the aborigine “dreamtime” concept and myths). A certain element of mind was undeveloped then, we call it metacognition. The ability to think about our thinking. The evolution of ego was a continuation of the manifestation of our species into the physical realm of three dimensional reality.
Now think of the human race as a child who experienced a powerful and overwhelming “trauma” that saturated his conscious with negative energy that cannot be faced directly. That energy “sinks” down into the unconscious to the bottom of the mind that sits just above the threshold to the subconscious. And there it “gathers” on the ocean floor and the mind itself “uses” fear because of its repulsive properties to “push” the thoughts out of sight. The trauma gives birth to our shadow. The fear is then attached TO the thoughts that sit above the subconscious mind and forms a “wall” of repulsive force that drives the “spectrum” of our consciousness away from the negative thoughts and consequently away from the subconscious at the same time. This repulsive force is what separated the layering of our collective mind and “projected” the human collective ego into being. This wall is called “The Veil of Isis.”
You may proceed with your own understanding of psychology to arrive at your own conclusions about what the "destiny” of this veil will be. The trauma that we experienced (flood, pole shift or another natural disaster perhaps, who knows for sure) caused a split in consciousness that lead to an outward manifestation of violence and pain as our minds cried out trying to fight the horror of what was inflicted on us. Thus we have millennia of wars and suffering. Those institutions we see historically who are most responsible for those wars are the physical manifestations of that trauma, the cause of the trauma and its range of effects. So mythological speaking, the collective ego is the serpent on the tree of human consciousness and our religions and governments have been the medium through which that trauma has ‘sustained” itself in the physical world around us. I am not saying that the “teachings” of religion are corrupt, I am saying the character of those who administer those teachings have been corrupt in the past.
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." ~ Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
Just as a human being grows up and learns to face his fears with compassion and understanding and given enough time and love will break through the barrier into the unconscious and become free from his trauma, so too will our collective do the same. “The dynamics of the individual psyche are the same as the dynamics of the society.” And therefore the Veil of Isis is “destined” to come down of its own accord. I will not go into the many variables here that predict when it will happen but you can see the manifestations of the erosion of the Veil of Isis all around you now in our culture and society. Such as the “Freedom of Speech” act and the invention of HTML that allowed the internet to come into being and connect the fragmented grid of human thought together in a “World Wide Web.” It is happening now. The ideals expressed by the erosion of the Veil echo in our collective souls, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
The Overview and the Veil of Isis
The wise doctor above wrote a great deal about empathy and being an empath but there are “perceived” flaws to being emotionally open to the world. These flaws have been addressed already in the past many times over and many thousands of years ago. Instructions have been given in esoteric mystery schools since ancient Egypt that offer us wisdom in avoiding the pitfalls of taking our father’s fiery chariot (the human soul) for a spin in the heavens. Teachings that help build a solid foundation for entering into the worlds that are revealed only through the elevation of our emotional resonance (ascension). In the past people were not usually born awakened to their empathic intelligence and the collective emotional IQ (EI) was low. So learning these lessons could take a lifetime. In this day and age the “processor” or clock speed of human consciousness has increased to such a degree that evolution is pushing us forward toward an awakening as a species into a higher world of perception. Such things as the internet, brought about through the invention of HTML, have only escalated the unfoldment of this process. Acts such as “Freedom of Speech” are the manifestation of some-thing happening in the human collective unconscious, but we will get to that later.
Let us discuss something called the overview. There are a couple of variables in my own personal perception that stand out clearly when I think of being an empath. The overview and another occulted ideal, The Veil of Isis. The overview is our ability to see ourselves and our own emotional attachments and behaviors from a perspective outside our selves. This allows us to separate illusions from reality and purge ourselves of what is non-essential to our spiritual well-being. A friend has reminded me that there are two ways to do this, with creative reasoning and using your imagination through meditation and another more logical approach that has been summed up best as “Occam’s Razor.” I am going to address the former here as I am a creative thinker and operate out of my heart using creative language and metaphor to speak with the soul rather than the mind itself through logic. Both paths if followed with humility and honesty and devotion to truth and love for life in all its manifestations will lead to enlightenment. These are methods used to essentially psycho-analyze yourself.
There is only ONE reality. Only one god. From this moment forth I lay claim to creative license and thus am exempt from all logical arguments against me. Take comfort and rest assured that what I reveal is clothed in truth and any resistance that arises between what I say and what you hear is because of a misunderstanding or a mistranslation of the metaphors I use to point toward the inner processes of the human soul. By laying claim to the mantle of truth to move against this re-presentation is only to harm yourself. I mean this with no negative or egotistic connotation. Seek to understand and not criticize or reject outright what is said here. (smiles softly)
Today many young people are being born wide open to their emotional body of intelligence and cannot shut out the battering of subconscious forces that assail them. Since they have not developed the proper techniques for dealing with these energies they become saturated with negative forces that damage them deeply, forces they do not know how to dispel. A wall within the human collective unconscious is eroding and it is time for science to take the reins and address this with sincerity and honesty. In the past those who have “administered” science have feared taking on such a task because it blurs the lines between religion and science, between metaphor and logic. Now however, our children’s well-being is at stake, perhaps the well being of our entire race is in jeopardy.
The time has come for the torch to be passed. The day is here for science to take the “leap from the lions mouth” and allow the cradle that holds the human soul to move out of the corruption of religious ignorance and into the light. Life IS spiritual. Jesus IS the world. We ARE the gods. In the past the metaphors used to convey an understanding of the human soul were confused as FACTS and in this context mythology and spirituality do not make sense. It becomes a dead thing that only confuses the world and creates war and chaos. The archetypes as described by Carl Jung and (more clearly) Joseph Campbell are the Rosetta stone to translating religious experiences and myth into a form tangible enough for science to grasp. In this way metaphor can be separated from fact and the human collective unconscious can be studied properly without the stigma of personal beliefs. Belief can be added post-priori by each student at their own leisure. The cornerstone has been laid for merger of two world views.
Let’s look at a passage from Rudolph Steiner’s book “How to Know Higher Worlds” that addresses the most simple way to approach to develop the overview that will help shield us from the pitfalls of evolution. When reading this you may think “this is too simple to be anything of value” but I assure you, life’s greatest mysteries are hidden in plain sight. Life’s secrets are in its simplicities. It’s not about whether you understand with your mind but how deeply you embody that understanding in your heart.
The Overview
“As students of the spirit, we must set aside a brief period of time in daily life in which to focus on things that are quite different from the objects of our daily activity. The kind of activity we engage in must also differ from what occupies the rest of our day. This is not to say, however, that what we do in the minutes we have set aside is unconnected with the content of our daily work. On the contrary, we soon realize that, if approached in the right way, such moments give us the full strength for completing our daily tasks. We need not fear that following this rule will actually take time away from our duties. If someone really cannot spare any more time, five minutes a day are sufficient. What matters is how those five minutes are used.
In these moments we should tear ourselves completely out of our everyday life. Our thinking and feeling lives should have a quite different coloring than they usually have. We should allow our joys, sorrows, worries, experiences, and actions to pass before our soul. But our attitude toward these should be one of looking at everything we have experienced from a higher point of view. Consider, in ordinary life, how differently we perceive what other people have experienced or done from the way we perceive what we ourselves have experienced or done. This must be so. We are still interwoven with what we experience or do, but we are only onlookers of other people’s experiences or acts. In the time we have set aside for ourselves, then, we must strive to view and judge our own experiences and actions as though they belonged to another person.
Viewing ourselves as strangers
As students of higher knowledge we must find the strength to view ourselves as we would view strangers. We must face ourselves with the inner tranquility of a judge. If we achieve this, our own experiences will reveal themselves in a new light. As long as we are still woven into our experiences, and stand within them, we will remain as attached to the nonessential as to the essential. But once we have attained the inner peace of the overview, the nonessential separates itself from the essential. Sorrow and joy, every thought, every decision will look different when we stand over against ourselves in this way. It is as though we spent the whole day somewhere and saw everything, small and large, at close range, and then in the evening climbed a neighboring hill and enjoyed an overview of the whole place at once. Then the various parts of the town and their relationships to each other would appear very different from when we stood among them.
As we progress in this direction, we become increasingly able to control the effect that impressions from the outer world have upon us. For example, we may hear someone say something to hurt or anger us. Before we began esoteric training, this would have made us feel hurt or anger. Now, however, because we are on the path of inner development, we can take the hurtful or annoying sting out of another’s words before it finds its way into our inner being. Another example: before beginning to follow this path, we may have been quick to lose our patience when we had to wait for something. But now, having started on the path and become pupils in a school of esoteric study, we imbue ourselves in our contemplative moments so fully with the realization that most impatience is futile that, whenever we feel any impatience, it immediately calls this realization to mind. The impatience that was about to take root thus disappears, and the time we would otherwise have wasted in expressions of impatience can now be filled with some useful observation that we may make while we wait.”
A bliss bestowing world
“Something else is also needed. When we look upon ourselves as strangers it is still only ourselves that we are contemplating. We see the experiences and actions connected to us by the particular course of life we have grown through. But we must go beyond that. We must rise to see the purely human level that no longer has anything to do with our own particular situation. We must reach the point of contemplating those things that concern us as human beings as such, completely independent of the circumstances and conditions of our particular life.
As we do this, something comes to life in us that transcends what is personal or individual. Our view is directed toward worlds higher than those our everyday life brings us. We begin to feel, to experience, that we belong to these higher worlds of which our senses and everyday activities can tell us nothing. The center of our being shifts inward. We listen to the voices that speak within us in our moments of serenity. Inwardly, we associate with the spiritual world. Removed from our daily round, we become deaf to its noise. Everything around us grows still. We put aside everything that reminds us of outer impressions. Quiet, inward contemplation and dialog with the purely spiritual world completely fill our soul. For students of the spirit, this quiet contemplation must become a necessity of life. At first, we are wholly absorbed in a world of thought. We must develop a living feeling for this silent thinking activity.
We must learn to love what streams toward us from the spirit. Then we shall soon cease to accept this world of thought as less real than the everyday life surrounding us. Instead, we will begin to work with our thoughts as we do with material objects. And then the moment will approach when we begin to realize that what is revealed to us in the silence of inner thinking activity is more real than the physical objects around us. We experience that life speaks in this world of thoughts. We realize that thoughts are not mere shadow pictures and that hidden beings speak to us through thoughts. Out of the silence something begins to speak to us. Previously we could hear speech only with our ears, but now words resound in our souls. An inner speech, an inner word, is disclosed to us. The first time we experience this we feel supremely blessed. Our outer world is suffused with an inner light. A second life begins for us. A divine, bliss-bestowing world streams through us.” – Rudolph Steiner “How to Know Higher Worlds”
The Buddha referred to this as the immovable spot or the seat of the soul. When one attains mastery of it the mind becomes “Zen” or peaceful like a calm mountain lake that reflects the moon and everything that passes by just as it is. The lake doesn’t add to or take away from it. It doesn’t try to hold on to the moon as it passes, it lets it go and by doing so the moon and lake “reflect” into each other as they pass. There is no desire to hold on or fear to run away. Just a peaceful clear commune of essence is shared between the two bodies.
Hence the Zen saying “Moon in the pond, blossom in the sky.”
This is the prerequisite for almost all inner work in esoteric study because it creates a foundation to which we can return to that frees us from illusions and allows us to “separate” the emotions of others from our own and our own emotional distortion of reality from direct perception of the world. In this way we can see reality just the way it is and not how “we” want it to be. Like Occam’s razor, this is a kind of “call to town” token like those you find in video games that “evac” you safely out of danger. It is the most common tool we use in our ascent toward a higher more liberated state of consciousness.
The Veil of Isis
"By the bright circle of the golden sun,
By the bright courses of the errant moon,
By the dread potency of every star,
In the mysterious Zodiac's burning girth,
By each and all of these supernal signs,
We do adjure thee, with this trusty blade
To guard yon central oak, whose holy stem,
Involves the spirit of high Taranis:
Be this thy charge." – MASON
The Parting of the Veil, Piercing of the Veil, Rending of the Veil or Lifting of the Veil refers, in the Western mystery tradition and contemporary witchcraft, to opening the "veil" of matter, thus gaining entry to a state of spiritual awareness in which the mysteries of nature are revealed. It is a reference to the mythical Veil of Isis, regarding which Plutarch records an inscription at the shrine of Neith-Isis-Minerva at Sais: “I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.” H. P. Blavatsky's famous book on occultism, Isis Unveiled is also a reference to this.
It is also a reference to the Gospel of Mark 15:38. In ceremonial magic, the Sign of the Rending of the Veil is a symbolic gesture performed by the magician with the intention of creating such an opening. It is performed starting with the arms extended forwards and hands flat against each other (either palm to palm or back to back), then spreading the hands apart with a rending motion until the arms point out to both sides and the body is in a T shape. After the working is complete, the magician will typically perform the corresponding Sign of the Closing of the Veil, which has the same movements in reverse.
Notice in the picture below the archetypal images: The parting of the Veil, the Crystal Sea, and the union of opposites.
There is no need to go into an extensive explanation of occult science about this concept here. I do feel the Veil of Isis needs to be mentioned however so I will make it brief. There was a time in the past of human existence when we didn’t have the “ego” we do today. It simply did NOT exist the way it does today on either an individual or collective level. You can arrive at an understanding of the Veil by simply using techniques employed by psycho-therapists to analyze the mythologies and religions of the world through reading the metaphorical meanings hidden within them. There is nothing “pseudo-scientific” about it whatsoever. When I personally follow the myths back into the collective unconscious of our species I find that there is a point that is quite clear where the ego or serpent, as it is re-presented in myth, appears on the tree of life (human collective unconscious). It takes place many thousands of years ago in a certain garden we all know about. Now take into consideration that I am analyzing the mind of our race by reading the metaphors and this is not FACT in any way. There is something we call archetypes and these universal or foundational ideas rise up within us from the collective unconscious and manifest into human cultural experience shaping everything we do (read my post on them). Lucifer or the serpent is an archetype that is metaphor for the force of consciousness or within consciousness that gave birth (stimulated growth) to the human collective ego. Before the “fall” from the garden we lived in a state of bliss because in some ways we were “submerged” into the subconscious mind and joined with it. Life was like a dream to us at that time (see the aborigine “dreamtime” concept and myths). A certain element of mind was undeveloped then, we call it metacognition. The ability to think about our thinking. The evolution of ego was a continuation of the manifestation of our species into the physical realm of three dimensional reality.
Now think of the human race as a child who experienced a powerful and overwhelming “trauma” that saturated his conscious with negative energy that cannot be faced directly. That energy “sinks” down into the unconscious to the bottom of the mind that sits just above the threshold to the subconscious. And there it “gathers” on the ocean floor and the mind itself “uses” fear because of its repulsive properties to “push” the thoughts out of sight. The trauma gives birth to our shadow. The fear is then attached TO the thoughts that sit above the subconscious mind and forms a “wall” of repulsive force that drives the “spectrum” of our consciousness away from the negative thoughts and consequently away from the subconscious at the same time. This repulsive force is what separated the layering of our collective mind and “projected” the human collective ego into being. This wall is called “The Veil of Isis.”
You may proceed with your own understanding of psychology to arrive at your own conclusions about what the "destiny” of this veil will be. The trauma that we experienced (flood, pole shift or another natural disaster perhaps, who knows for sure) caused a split in consciousness that lead to an outward manifestation of violence and pain as our minds cried out trying to fight the horror of what was inflicted on us. Thus we have millennia of wars and suffering. Those institutions we see historically who are most responsible for those wars are the physical manifestations of that trauma, the cause of the trauma and its range of effects. So mythological speaking, the collective ego is the serpent on the tree of human consciousness and our religions and governments have been the medium through which that trauma has ‘sustained” itself in the physical world around us. I am not saying that the “teachings” of religion are corrupt, I am saying the character of those who administer those teachings have been corrupt in the past.
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." ~ Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
Just as a human being grows up and learns to face his fears with compassion and understanding and given enough time and love will break through the barrier into the unconscious and become free from his trauma, so too will our collective do the same. “The dynamics of the individual psyche are the same as the dynamics of the society.” And therefore the Veil of Isis is “destined” to come down of its own accord. I will not go into the many variables here that predict when it will happen but you can see the manifestations of the erosion of the Veil of Isis all around you now in our culture and society. Such as the “Freedom of Speech” act and the invention of HTML that allowed the internet to come into being and connect the fragmented grid of human thought together in a “World Wide Web.” It is happening now. The ideals expressed by the erosion of the Veil echo in our collective souls, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
