Mystery of Master R – Part 2: Searching the Likeness

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In December 2002, I attended a Qabbalah class on “Interior Contacts”.  It was hosted by the Lotus Foundation, the home of my dear friend Genie, whom I met for the first time on that day.

The class teacher told us:  “In Beriah are the Magidim of the Tree’s Upper Face, or Masters.  Every School of the Soul has a connection with these.  Schools have ‘ray’ functions.  Your membership depends on what your ray resonance is. ”

He for instance, tried very hard to become a Freemason.  When finally initiated through a friend, he was prevented every time from going to meetings at Lodge by two hour flu, train strikes or whatever.  He realised that freemasonry was a stepping stone from the past, but no longer required.  Guidance only registers when you take it on board, inside.

He told a story about Paul Foster Case and his Magid, the Count Ragoczy (Saint-Germain) of Transsylvania, who phoned and met him in a hotel in New York, and about how Case and his wife and a student took dictation once a week through an ouija board, word by word;  and the EXTRAORDINARY QUALITY OF THAT TRANSMISSION – and its way of dry teasing.   Our teacher read aloud a few passages to us.  Case only had to turn his mind to any one aspect of the teaching, and it would open up.  He was told to set up a new wisdom School, and to move from the East coast to California.

(NB – this story was told a second time in the other Kabbalah group, five months later when I asked for verification – see previous post.) 

Now of course I was very excited to hear about Le Comte;  and our teacher had even brought along an 18th century portrait of him in his white wig and piercing deep eyes.  He stood it on the mantelpiece, in Genie’s big room.

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18thC portrait of Master R. It is signed by “A.Knapp”. The reproduction carries this information: “… … It is generally supposed that this mysterious adept was born in 1710, but the Countess v.Gergy declared she had seen him during that year in Venice, and he appeared to be between 45 and 50 years old at that time. While the church register at Eckenforde contains a record of his death in 1784, it is known that he was seen upon several occasions subsequent to that date, having attended a Masonic conference in 1785, and having been recognised in Venice in 1788. The last historical mention of the Comte was in 1822, at which time he was presumably on the eve of embarking for India.” ~~~~ I have this picture in my home.  The class teacher generously gave it to me, a few months later.

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During a class tea-break, I took a couple of quick sketches from this portrait.  My ‘magyar’ connection has an energy here!   I heard of St-Germain before, but only vaguely.  I hadn’t known he is behind the Alchemy I am studying.   Suddenly he came to life, and I was literally trembling :

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From my Journal – 8 December 2002:

“Ragoczy is a big fish, a Great Master Magid of a School, not of individuals, but I am inspired by him and his shoal of fishes.  As soon as I got home last night, I drew him into my sketchbook – from the drawings and from memory – as best I could:

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“The Book of Tokens is by him, and so are the lessons of the Great Work, I guess.  Our teacher read to us some paragraphs which he has.  It is about evolution and the Scorpio force.   Can I reconstruct an essence of it?

“The thing is not genetic.  That is to say, it is not by genetic evolution: (in the 1930s and 40s when these transmissions were being taken down, the topic of genetic selective breeding was all the rage, as also with the Nazis.)    The natural genes haven’t got the radical composition.  The Scorpio force is the being born again during life, to serve the Great Work.  It is the alchemy of the individual lead into gold.  The sexual nature is irreversibly altered and refined.  LOVE, AND YOU SHALL KNOW.  It said that Love isn’t of anything or anyone;  it IS.

“Now as Love is the One Source, the current of it comes through the Count, because at the level of his consciousness, there are no separate individuals.  He’s the same as Ramana or anyone else it comes through, to stress the point.  Yet he oversees particular rays or gardens of the teaching.  That face in his portrait is only an interface function, to recognise him by.  The truth overflows any container.  Our personality and its distortions and insecurities is unaltered by Self-realisation, and yet the realisation is at its root.

“Most of us see love in terms of returns and partners.”  (But if one has loved deeply, without return, then it is branded in!)   “‘Love and you shall know.’  ‘The can-opener of the intellect is too dull to probe the secrets of the Heart of Life.‘

“Let the excitory sense be peace … I think for me to plod on with the revelations in ‘The Great Work’ is quite enough to go on with.  Unfortunately I couldn’t retain most of what was read out today, because my sense of re-cognition kept getting in the way.

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GALLERY of early portraits, studies and sketches of Le Comte and companions. 
Drawings in this post are december 2002 – May 2003

My natal planets on the Tree of Life

Planets on the Tree – showing the triad of awakening (Hod/Mercury, Netzach/Venus, Tifareth/Sun) and the triad of the soul (Tifareth/Sun, Gevurah/Mars, Hesed/Jupiter)

An imaginary inner-plane teacher archetype, hooded and mysterious

I do not visualise easily. Some people can read words, see figures … for me the book, the page is blank, and I have to feel my way. A Capricornian process to realise!

This was a sketch for a commissioned work. This Master’s appearance was dictated to me, and the drawing is by trial and error. It is done in a more conventional way, with fixed eyes, which I do not like so well, nowadays. Note the Cherubim on his mitre.

He is like the honey, with very dark eyes.

In Mozartian mode. He could materialise diamonds from the air, and mend those ones which were flawed.

I was fascinated to see the Sulphur-Fire glyph in the Tree, outlining the Triad of Awakening; and its inversion, the Hanging Man inside TAV, as coloured by the Builders of the Adytum.

Another sketch of the Hesedic Master. A pair of circles entering each other, form a Vesica, a sacred space, a Child.

Rather busy, but I was absorbing a lot of information at the time. On the Tree, Hokhmah, Gevurah, Netzach are Fire Sefiroth; while Binah, Hesed, Hod are Water Sefiroth. They interpenetrate through Tifareth – an alchemical view.

The Tree’s three bridging paths, ruled by Venus, Sun, Mars. They are yet feminine to the masculine vertical centre pillar through Consciousness which is Tifareth. The Tree interacts all over with itself, Taoistically.

A philosophers’ Stone – the Indian Tattvas on the Sefiroth. The Tattvas are what touches us from behind and through the physical senses.

Notes, following the previous illustration

The letter Samech, linking Yesod and Tifareth at the Tree’s heart, pegs ideas and thoughts firmly to earth. In this cube shape, the three vertical paths spell SMKh, as the letter MEM is on the left pillar, and the letter KAPh is on the right.

This is a detail – another philosophers’ Stone – from the Sacred India Tarot.

The Cube of space has 13 antipodeal axes – all the directions of space. Note, 1+3 is 4. In Hebrew the words Ahebah/Love and AChvd/Unity, share the same gematria or number which is 13.

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“When invoking, consider – “Who is saying the Name through you?” (God speaking to God.)  … The Grail in an early morning impression, overflowed, and its white effulgence expanded concentrically all around it, penetrating everything, everything to become it.   This was encouraging, and I jumped out of bed after lying in the fountain for a bit.

“Practice looking at things STRAIGHTLY, without any feeling about them at all.  The feeling-stuff is what reinforces and defines ME.

“REFLECTING – Diminishing the sense of I, for a more accurate impession, I become less;  God becomes more.  How to diminish the small-i?  Change the mode of feeling …  the feeling-triad on the Tree, Yesod, Hod, Netzach.   Open it out with the conscious Sun, Tifareth, and the root to earth, Malkuth.

“George Eliot, Daniel Deronda page 407 – “I am lord of this moment’s change, and will charge it with my soul … … To be in a state of suspense, which was also one of emotive activity and scruple, was a favourite attitude of his conscience … … the passionate patience of genius.”

“Look into the dark texture pool of the soul.  Only look.  Only one problem, the I-importantce, or as Alan Jacobs would say, the schopenhaurian Will.  Do not allow any opinions to finish or foreclose.  They are all coloured by the I-importance, and both illusory and limiting.

“Overheard at Shul – preparations for Graham’s wedding – the words Wisdom and Understanding.  As Kabbalists we try to act with wisdom and understanding.”

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GALLERY, including some pages of Master R/St-Germain’s music
for violin and harpsichord continuo (see previous post).
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE, TO VIEW

A few andantes & adagios from the collection of his violin music. The style is purely of his musical period; but in it we can hear the Master’s thought – the inner plane through earthly instruments.

Page 2 of this Allegro which bowls along like the stars

I did this sketch when away from home – probably at an alchemy class

I drew this while reading Lord Lytton’s novel ‘Zanoni’ which is inspired by Le Comte and his role during the French Revolution. There is a luminous description of his appearance in an early chapter.

My first study of Paul Foster Case, himself a gifted musician

Try it here and now, with any kind of keyboard! The thoughts behind the wisdom. This movement has a particularly lovely violin line … taking a stroll

I experimented with other modes, the way people see him: this one, based on the Baron in the fraternity of Knights of Malta. Not quite ‘fluid’ enough for my liking.

A colleague – the Egyptian Master. Traditionally, he has blue eyes – or so I was told.

An older generation in the Rakoczy lineage – possibly Le Comte’s father, or an elder embodiment

My favourite portrait of Serapis Bey

The voice inside

He wears a blue Alchemist’s cap: the Yod of the Hermit in the BOTA Tarot Keys

 

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“… She perceived in a box near the stage, a countenance which at once, and like magic, produced on her mind an effect never to be analyzed nor forgotten.  It was one that awakened an indistinct haunting reminiscence, as if she had seen it in those daydreams she had been so wont from infancy to indulge.  She could not withdraw her gaze from that face, and as she gazed, the awe and coldness that had before seized her, vanished, like a mist from before the sun. 

“In the dark splendour of the eyes that met her own, there was indeed so much of gentle encouragement, of benign and compassionate admiration;  so much that warmed, and animated, and nerved;  that anyone – actor or creator – who has ever observed the effect that a single earnest and kindly look, in the crowd that is to be addressed and won, will produce upon his mind, may readily account for the sudden and inspiriting influence which the eye and smile of the stranger exercised upon the debutante. 

“And while the yet she gazed, and the glow returned to her heart, the stranger half rose, as if to recall the audience to a sense of the courtesy due to one so fair and young … 

” … Yet again, as she turned from the stage, she looked back involuntarily, and the stranger’s calm and half melancholy smile sunk into her heart – to live there – to be recalled with confused memories, half of pleasure and half of pain.”

From ‘Zanoni’ — a Novel by Lord Lytton
— London 1874

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Polish the mundane … carve and polish the precious stones of Life, through night and day:  the Stone of the wise.

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Aquariel – an angel of the waters and of the air through the woods of life.

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