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KIT 102 - Elemental Breaths:  Fire and Air 

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KIT 102 - Elemental Breaths:  Fire and Air 

FIRE

The next baptism is the transmutation of fire into light. Breathe
in through the mouth and out through the nose. Identify yourself
with the flame that is sucking in air from the environment. There
is a tremendous demand of the flame in you, combustion that is
going to draw the energy from the environment, or at least enhance
the convergence of the air energy of the environment. We are in a
continual state of combustion. Otherwise we wouldn't have
temperature. This is the effect of phosphorescence rather than
fluorescence that takes place when we draw in light and transmit
light from the environment. (Both are called bioluminescence.)

As you breathe in, think of a flame that starts burning at the
bottom of your spine. You may think of the different colors of the
aura in a sequence corresponding to the spectrum: red at the
bottom of the spine, terracotta in the second chakra, orange in
the solar plexus, and then gold in the heart, green in the throat
center, blue in the eyes (actually there is a chakra in the eyes
between the two eyebrows) violet in the pituitary gland, and then
colorless light in the fontanel above the head. So traditionally
one says that fire is transmuted into light. In fact
scientifically you can say that one is transmuting infrared light
into ultraviolet. Passing by the whole range of colors. If you
look into a flame, you'll see that indeed you'll discern red at
the bottom of the flame. Then you'll see some orange color, then
yellowish, and then gold. You find green and blue at the top.
You'll find all these colors in the flame in that sequence. So by
imagining those different colors, which are just the way we
perceive different frequencies, you will be enhancing what is
called transmutation of fire into light, phosphorescence into
fluorescence. Fluorescence is a different process than
phosphorescence. Phosphorescence is combustion of matter.
Fluorescence you are drawing light from the environment and you
are transforming it (not merely boomeranging it back again) in the
cells of your body and you're re-emitting it again.

Now in advanced practice, you continue with the movement upwards
above your head. In the practice of cacina, where you're getting
into the reflex of physical light, and the reflex of the reflex
and so forth, upwards. These are different levels of light which
Hildegard de Bingen refers to in her testimonies of her
experiences in meditation. These levels of light will help you
reach samadhi because they correspond to planes beyond the
existential ones, as Buddha says, beyond existence, beyond
consciousness, and beyond existence and non-existence, and beyond
consciousness and non-consciousness. Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
does give the practice of imagining a rainbow above the head. But
the colors are not what we understand by colors that are visible
to our eyes.

Now if you pursue this further, you would be holding your breath
after inhaling and discovering the luminous intelligence at the
apex of your being. We do that in the more advanced breathing
practices but not in this one. There is no holding of the breath
at all. However when you exhale through the nose, you'll notice
the effect of what we might call higher qualities of light over
the lower qualities of light. I don't like those words, higher and
lower, but it's to be found in the Quran, light upon the light.
This is the way the light of those higher planes which Hildegard
speaks about does permeate, does infiltrate into the light of your
aura, and has the effect of transforming it, in fact transfiguring
it.

Now the description Murshid gives of the fiery person is like a
cracker. So it just takes a match to make that person really
explode with a lot of anger, and of course it can be very
destructive. On the other hand people with this quality are very
truthful and cannot stand dishonesty and are ready to sacrifice
themselves for what they believe. Therefore I think of Shams-i-
Tabriz who said, "Enough of metaphor. I want burning, burning,
burning." It bypasses the mind and all of its justification.

Of course it brings about a radical change in you. Perhaps the
baptism of the earth didn't get rid of a lot of things that need
to be put aside before you can reach your goal of perfection.
Neither was water able to wash it away, but the fire will
certainly be able to do it. The fire is destructive because it is
indiscriminate, and there is no way of controlling it, so it's
very difficult to control. You'll find that a fire person is
always looking for an air person, a vital need, and the air person
gets vamped by the fire person. The fire person will of course
bring confusion in the mind of the air person, will bring doubt in
their thinking because the fire person always questions the
thinking, the assumptions of people.

You may see that you also have that element in yourself. The earth
or the water may balance it. One can't say it's really balanced by
the earth because that combination is volcanic, with eruptions and
instability. The earth is very stable, but under the effect of the
fire, it can be very badly disturbed. Fire is afraid of water, but
will transform water into steam so it doesn't have any action upon
it any more. So it's a very traumatic combination. Fire is looking
for but when fire is transformed into light, then there is no need
of this influx of air any more. In fact then the fuel is ether
instead of air which is a very mysterious element. Pir-o-Murshid
talks about that cryptically.

So see if you can do this as you breathe in through your mouth.
Think of your spine as a chimney and inside there is a flame. At
the beginning, you feel the heat of your body, infrared. Then as
you move upwards, you sense light, the radiance of your heart. It
becomes very subtle light at the level of the throat center, then
even the eyes. At the level of the third eye it becomes violet.
Just think of violet light. Like an x-ray it has the ability of
passing through walls and through your skull. It gives you a kind
of penetrating glance. You are able to see into the souls of
people. That light above the head would not be called light at
all. It's not existential light. It gives you a clue to what we
call the celestial spheres.

So that's above the crown center, or beyond it. I must say there's
a kind of geographical sense of one's lifting oneself. It's true
because one is shifting one's attention from one chakra to the
next. But when you get beyond the head do not think it's above
somewhere, that the angelic spheres are somewhere up there. The
best you could do is to think it is interspersed with we call the
physical reality or reality at the physical level. Of course as
you exhale, the descent of the Holy Spirit makes quickening
easier, but this is illumination rather than quickening. Probably
the secret of illumination is the light upon the light of the
Quran, because the impact of the light of intelligence, that is a
sudden realization, is going to transfigure your whole aura.

AIR

Breathe in through the mouth and out through the mouth. Just do it
and see how you feel. Perhaps you've noticed that breathing
through the mouth and exhaling through the mouth will enhance your
need, your yearning for freedom. One's mind jumps to the
conclusion that one wants to be free from circumstances. That's
why people leave the world to become sannyasins. But that does not
necessarily bring freedom. In fact the great science of finding
freedom is as Buddha says, "Find freedom in your opinion, in your
way of understanding things, in your attachment and your emotions
and in your self image." So it's really freedom from being caught
in a trap of your personal vantagepoint, and also freedom from the
condition that ensues from being trapped in your personal
vantagepoint. It's a longing for a whole other dimension, bursting
from frustration of being caught in a trap in one's mind, in one's
realization, in one's ignorance.

So the trouble is that, if misunderstood, the air element in one
is going to make one unreliable, unpredictable, moody. Therefore
one's energy is not directed in a congruous, consistent way. On
the other hand it certainly encourages creativity and
communicating a lot of energy unpredictably, impromptu. The
trouble is that a person of the air element is not so much
influenced by other people, but by the impulse rising from within.
A readiness to experiment with anything might go just too far, so
on one hand it could manifest as the greatest virtue and celestial
quest, and then on the other hand it could even skirt evil, purely
experimentally, out of a kind of curiosity. So it's a paradoxical
kind of state that one finds amongst people. Perhaps you can also
find it in yourself.

On the other hand, of course, those are the qualities that make
for awakening and ultimate freedom from the limitations of earthly
conditions. I would say that can happen if the air is directed
upwards in what is called an upwind, the kind that allows the
eagles and falcons to soar, rather than in the horizontal wind
that can be turbulent.

So in the previous practice with light, the winds were converged
inwards and born upwards. Incidentally the wazifa for that is of
course Ya Nur. Here the best way to direct the air energy is not
to converge it and then turn it upwards, but simply to turn it
upwards. That's what Buddha does by shifting his attunement to
levels beyond the existential level. Then air acts like a Pegasus
that carries Bellerophon to the Olympus, although Pegasus cannot
fly high enough to reach the Olympus, he imprints upon Bellerophon
the momentum that allows Bellerophon to proceed on his own.

That is what you're doing as you breathing in through the mouth,
Feel that kind of buoyancy of your need for freedom, drawing you
upwards. (Of course "upwards" is metaphoric. You have a sense of
freeing yourself from the gravity pull of the earth. But remember
that we are briefed now in Sufism to transmute the bodiness, and
therefore the earth quality in us, and even the water and fire
qualities in us, as we proceed upwards, instead of leaving the
body behind. That is the practice of resurrecting the body before
dying. You feel that buoyancy. It's what Pir-o-Murshid calls a
kind of longing that becomes stronger as you evolve for the
unattainable. As Pir-o-Murshid says, "It's like the horizon. It's
always beyond whatever you could ever foresee."

At the end of your inhaling, you find you've discovered that level
beyond conditioning. Therefore you can see there is ultimately
freedom from destiny. You can see that. You see you are not really
totally bound by destiny because you are gifted with the greatest
of gifts, the gift of divine freedom. That's an incredible
discovery because we often ascribe what happens to us to our bad
fate. You are discovering free, I think it was Fariduddin Attar
who says, "Oh man if you realize that you're free. It is your
ignorance of your freedom that is your captivity." So that's what
you do as you exhale. You suddenly discover you are free and you
didn't know it. It doesn't mean you are free from circumstances.
It's a kind of inner freedom, knowing that nothing can affect you
and change you and influence you because you are free. Then your
relationship with people is going to be as Kahlil Gibran says, "A
fresh wind blowing between big trees that do not grow in each
other's shade." Now you can dance with joy. You have overcome
pain, overcome pain by the power of joy. So God bless you now.

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N.B. -- I wonder, from the signoff, if this was excerpted from a
transcription of a lecture. -- sa
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Cross_check against SOS KIT 102 OK -- No divergences.

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N.B. -- I've input 2 other PVK Purifiction Breaths cassettes --
the transcriptions should be found on my Websites and/or
associated Briefcases:
www.geocities.com/sa73122 ... /sa73122c
and Briefcase
adobetozenith@yahoo.com 
Ask anyone who should have it for the Briefcase passwords
or else ask me, sa73122@yahoo.com
                                                               
I've not yet found a place to Post the audio inputs, so those go
on DVD to SO ABODE , with secondary sets to SO SURESENES and to
most of the usual BigWigs.                                   

I don't quite have the energy now  

(as_it_is_said, "goat can't get through the clutter" -- that's a
Maine joke -- and like I say, you should take the boat to Monhegan
Island, from Port Clyde, just short of Rockland )

to dig out the filenams of those 2 Purifcation Breaths.
I'll try to tack it onto =kittc2*.txt . which is the Table of
Contents and Bibliography and ReadMe doc for this set of KIT's.  

Day breaking at Campra.  Light snow.  Just had some Swiss hot
chocolate with a shot of filter coffee and a few of those
devilmints that you can only get in Andermatt.  Heated up in a
strong cup on a hotplate.  Again, I am greatful to the Vanzetti's
for giving me a warm dry place in which to do this work, in a
dignified setting -- like I say, nature may kill you, but it will
never mock you. 
Shucks, it's safer to walk mountain trails than to go to
McDonald's.

Respects and/or warm regards to all.

sa, 29 Nov '05 -- 27 CheShvan -- 26 Shawwal

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