The View From the Crow

Crow...are you "cawing" so I may know the secrets of balance within my soul! Or are you sending your "caw" just to remind me of universal laws? ⁽¹⁾

The average human being is often so engrossed in the demands of physical existence that spirituality is necessarily reduced to a matter of mere routine. Under these conditions of a rote existence, there is just so much that the average human being takes, or must take for granted! Among those things taken so much for granted is the very miracle, which makes life on earth possible - The Breath.

This issue of ARIADNE'S WEB^™ is dedicated to addressing The Breath, without which neither the routine of human existence, nor the exhilaration of the Spiritual Quest and its promise of immortality, could be even remotely possible. Accordingly, our lead article, The Breath: Bridge Between Mind and Body, Immortality and Existence, addresses The Breath, not only as the vital link between Mind and Body, but also as the vehicle of Divine Consciousness, which is attracted by the "thirst of the salt of the new-born body", and remains there until that thirst has been exhausted. In harmony with this orientation is the article by Yves-Fred Boisset entitled Saint-Yves d'Alveydre's Keys of the Orient, which treats the span of human life as consisting of the Mysteries of Birth and Death, with the period of time separating these to portals as being ideally occupied by the Mystery of Love. For its part, Sacred Breath, Sound and Form by John Eberly round out this sub-theme.

In this issue's Medieval Primer, entitled Obstipescere, David W. Lincoln deals with the Breath both from the point of view of the birthing process, and the dying process during crucifixion, a theme which echoes the view of Saint-Yves d'Alveydre who saw the entry of the soul into the human body at birth as a form of crucifixion. Interestingly, in DIDYANO the point is made that living is not to be measured so much by how many breaths one takes but more by how many times one's breath is taken away. For its part, the Entering the Sanctuary feature, entitled The Breath of God, by Zacchaeus, challenges the reader to enter into that ideal state of Meditation in which one may experience the Divine Breath as it manifests at the very center of all creation.

The Perspectives seem all to speak with one voice. Thus, while The Masonic Perspective, entitled Freemasonry and The Breath of Life by Norman Pearson, speaks eloquently of the role of Freemasonry in the promotion of equality and fraternity in the world, the Templar Perspective, entitled Breathing: A Templar Perspective, focuses on the controlled breath in the face of danger, while defending all that is right. Finally, The Martinist Perspective, which is this issue's Esoteric Streams feature, and is entitled The Cardiac or Mystic Path by Dr. Gérard Encausse (PAPUS), deals with the importance of simplicity and the purification of body, soul and mind in one's spiritual quest. In the same vein, Part II of The Fool of Shakti by Rémi Boyer, also deals with the theme of simplicity, especially as it applies to Initiation. And speaking of purifying body, soul and mind our METAPHYSIOLOGY® feature, entitled Healing in The New Millennium focuses, among other things, on what the late Dr. Willis Harman called Cultural Hypnosis and the important influence of the mind, even at the level of the genes and genetics.

Finally, in Part II of The Self and Possession by A Priest of the Temple, the seven principles of what constitutes the human being, according to Buddhism, are carefully delineated and the phenomenon of possession attributed to issues within the Kama or emotional aspect of the soul.

Rounding out this issue of ARIADNE'S WEB™ is MUSTIKUMA, which suggests that ultimately one's relationship with God determines the path of one's Spiritual Quest.

Volume 5, Number 4 ° Summer 2000

(1) Quote taken from MEDICINE CARDS by Jamie Sams and David Carson

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