by Gnostic Muse | Jul 15, 2018 | Practices, Runes
“The script of the First Root Race was with the Runes. The mallet of Masonry comes from the arrow of the Egyptian God Ra, and this is a Rune. In that epoch, the rituals of the Polar Temple were all runic. The movements of the officials were runic. This is the Divine Script.”
-Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony
“The runes are formidable for the awakening of the consciousness.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Gnostic Magic of the Runes
Runes as a Language
Runes are remnants of a very ancient language from antediluvian civilizations. According to H.P. Blavatsky, the word rune is from a Scandinavian word meaning “secret”.
Runes have mysterious origins within the Nordic tradition, as letters of a language that also contain ritualistic properties.
Samael Aun Weor received the teachings of the runes from his Rosicrucian teacher Arnold Krumm-Heller (Huiracocha), and from studying the Nordic tradition. His book The Gnostic Magic of the Runes contains three aspects in alternating chapters: explanation of the runes, reflections on the Aenied, and a study of pure science.
Runes as a Map
The runes show a map of the initiatic path– the journey that each seeker of God must make through psychological, emotional, mental, and spiritual struggles and transformations.
This journey is mirrored in The Aenied, the story of the founding of the city of Rome by Aeneas, the last of the great semi-divine Greek heroes.
Rome represents the celestial Jerusalem, the Holy City that we build inside of ourselves through the gnostic esoteric work, the cathedral of the soul.
Runes as a Science
The chapters from Gnostic Magic of the Runes on science include studies on meditation and reflections on molecular and astro-physics. Transformation on the esoteric path occurs by utilizing the matter of the physical body and the universe, and working in a scientific way with the mind.
As unveiled by Samael Aun Weor the runic practices contain a posture, prayer, mantra, and the transmutation of vital energies. Each rune connects us with a certain internal archetype.
The runic practices are powerful experiential tools, allowing us to become the symbol and polarize intelligently the inner meaning of the rune.
The following are some examples of the meanings of the runes and the accompanying runic practices as given by Samael Aun Weor in his book The Gnostic Magic of the Runes.
Rune FA
Purpose: Salutation to the Solar Logos.
Posture: Facing the East hold the arms outstretched with the palms facing forward and the left hand slightly raised. Receive the light into the hand chakras, through the arms and into the heart.
Prayer: Marvelous forces of love! Revive my sacred fire so that my consciousness will awaken!
Mantra: FA FE FI FO FU
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Rune MAN
Purpose: A celebration and devotion to the Solar Logos.
Posture: Stand facing the East with the arms raised in a “V”.
Prayer: to the Solar Logos
Mantra: IAO
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Rune AR
Purpose: Preparation for the advent of the sacred fire
Posture: Stand facing the East with the right leg slightly outward and the arms relaxed by the side.
Mantra: AR I O
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Rune DORN
Purpose: Christic Will, the crown of thorns that brings great suffering in the world, and ultimately triumph in God.
Posture: Stand facing the East, with the feet together and the right hand on right hip.
Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father, Who is in Heaven, Hallowed by your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven…
Mantra: TA TE TI TO TU
Rune IS
Purpose: Devotional to the Divine Mother Kundalini
Mantra: IS IS
Posture: Stand facing the East with the arms raised and the body in a vertical line.
Prayer: Oh Isis, mother of the cosmos…
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Rune UR
Purpose: Devotional to the Divine Mother of Cosmic Space.
Mantra: RAM I O
Posture: Facing the East and crushing with the arms outstretched; bending over in an arch.
Prayer: Within my true internal being resides the divine light..
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Runes TYR and BAR
Purpose: TYR and BAR are often combined as a pair to work with the Christic willpower and to prepare ourselves for the incarnation of the intimate Christ.
Posture: Facing the East with the feet together and the arms raised above the head. Pronounce the mantra TYR, prolonging the “R” while slowly bringing the arms down to the sides. Then bend the left knee out and put the left hand on the hip to imitate a “B” and pronounce the mantra BAR, prolonging the “R”.
Mantras: TYR and BAR
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Rune RITA
Purpose: Conscious remorse, awakening the consciousness and the heart.
Posture: Facing the East with the left arm on the hip and the left leg slightly extended in imitation of the letter “R”.
Mantra: RA RE RI RO RU
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by Gnostic Muse | Jun 28, 2018 | Divine Feminine, Practices, Runes
The Divine Mother in Her cosmic aspect goes by many different names. She was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians as the goddess Nut, Her body itself being the starry firmament. She is the receptive aspect of all of creation, and her manifestations are infinite.
Her posture is curved over like the womb of the sky. To experience and commune with this part of the Divine Mother we can utilize prayer and the runic postures given to us through the Gnostic tradition of Samael Aun Weor.
The Rune UR
There are many runic practices in the Gnostic tradition, each with different purpose and meaning, and the rune UR in particular is dedicated to the Divine Mother.
UR is the cosmic womb, which is closed during the the Mahapralaya, the Great Night, and opens downward and gives birth to the Mahamanvantara, the Great Cosmic Day. When the new Mahamanvantara dawns the Eternal Mother Space extends out like a lotus bud.
“Loving our Divine Mother and thinking in that great womb where worlds are gestated, let us pray…” –Samael Aun Weor
The Practice of the Rune UR
The rune is “performed before the sun with raised arms and hands, legs opened and body slightly crouched, thus awaiting to receive light and more light.”
-Samael Aun Weor
“The student will place himself towards the North or facing the Sun and once he has raised his arms up like in the previous Rune FA, he will bend down with his legs open, and in this position, he will think firmly that in this way the Cosmic Current may penetrate in his interior.”
-Arnold Krumm-Heller “Huiracocha”
In the crouching position recite the following prayer:
Within my true internal Being resides the Divine Light
RAM IO Mother of my Being, Devi Kundalini
RAM IO help me
RAM IO assist me, illuminate me
RAM IO Divine Mother of mine, Isis of mine
You have the child Horus, my true Being, in your arms.
Help me to die within myself
So that my Essence may be lost in Him…Him…Him…
After the prayer, bow forward in imitation of the Egyptian goddess Nut, the curve of the sky.
About the Prayer of the Rune UR
Within this prayer we call upon the Divine Mother in all of Her aspects, who is interwoven in the branches of the Tree of Life.
RAM IO is a mantra for three aspects of the Divine Mother. Our individual Mother Nature, creator and architect of our physical organism related to the sephirah Malkuth, our elemental intercessor related to Yesod, and our individual Divine Mother the Kundalini sexual force, related to Binah.
“Help me to die within myself..” is an invocation of Divine Mother Death, the terrible Hecate, Persephone, Coatlicue, queen of the infernos and death; terror of love and law, related to Geburah.
With the curved posture we call and pray to the unmanifested Prakriti, the Divine Mother Space, imitating the posture of the Egyptian goddess Nut, and related to the Ain Soph.
“So that my Essence may be lost in Him..Him…Him…” We are invoking the Christ, the golden child Horus, asking to surrender to Him. Christ teaches us to sacrifice everything, over and over so that the worlds may have life and have it in abundance.
We yearn to die psychologically, mystically, so that our beautiful essence is lost in the love of the Christ, the golden child Horus.
The Magic of the Runes
by Gnostic Muse | Sep 10, 2017 | Practices, Runes
“A Judo of the Spirit exists; we are referring to the Runic exercises; these are formidable for the awakening of the Consciousness. Whosoever wants to work with this judo must begin with the rune of Mercury, which has a violet color that originates extraordinary cosmic forces. Therefore, it is necessary to know that this aforesaid Nordic rune encloses in itself the whole potency and impulse for fecundity. We need the Fohat’s breath, the Pentecostal sparks, in order to fecundate our own psyche, in order for us to become self-conscious. If we analyze the practices of the Rune FAH, we can affirm that Pranayama, prayer, meditation and a specific sacred posture exist within them.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Esoteric Course in Runic Magic
“FA… encloses in itself all the force, all the energy of Fecundity in the absolute sense of the word. Try, Oh Disciple! to fecundate all your success and all your happiness with this energy and it will come to you in the nocturnal silence of your spiritual night like precious gifts.”
-Arnold Krumm-Heller (Huiracocha)
“When we get out of bed, with immense happiness we must salute each new day by raising our arms towards, the Sun-Christ, our Lord, in such a way that the left arm is a little more elevated than the right one, and that the palms of our hands must remain before the light in that ineffable and sublime attitude of one who really yearns to receive the solar rays. This is the sacred posture of the rune Fa.
Once like this, we will work with Pranayama, inhaling the air through the nose and exhaling it through the mouth in a rhythmical way and with much faith. Let us imagine in those instants that the light of the Sun-Christ enters within us through the fingers of our hands, circulates through our arms, inundates our entire organism, until it reaches the consciousness and stimulates it, awakens it, and calls it into activity. In the mysterious and divine nights practice this runic judo before the starry sky of Urania, and with the same posture, pray. This short and great prayer can and must be prayed with all of our heart, as many times as we want.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Esoteric Course in Runic Magic
The rune FA is a Sun salutation to receive help, protection, and inspiration from the great Solar Logos, the cosmic fire, the active force of light within everything. It is excellent to greet the Sun rising in the morning, saluting the beginning of a new day and its possibilities. With this practice we receive the solar light into the chakras, or energy gateways, of the hands, through the arms and into the heart.
Fire is the potency of the sexual force, the drive and impetus within our bodies. Fire can be directed in useful or destructive ways, but it can never be put out. With this rune we can initiate each day with a devotion to the Solar Logos with courage and strength, and burn away laziness and confusion. We can use this rune practice to strengthen the Essence with devotion and transmutation and feel a deeper connection to our inner Being.
Practice
Facing the East, with the arms raised and palms out, with the left arms raised slightly above the right we recite the following prayer and mantra:
Marvelous Forces of Love, enliven my sacred fires, so that my consciousness will awaken.
FA, FE, FI, FO, FU
The Magic of the Runes
by Gnostic Muse | Nov 2, 2016 | Practices, Runes
“‘Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on it shall not be confounded. The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner; a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.’
The old medieval alchemists always sought the philosopher’s stone and some of them performed the Great Work successfully. Speaking with blunt frankness it is our duty to emphatically affirm that this stone is sex. Within the stone (sex) the fire is found latent and the ancients made sparks come out from within the living bosom of the hard flint. The mantram ARIO prepares the Gnostics for the advent of the sacred fire. Chant this mantram every morning dividing it up into three syllables: A-RI-O, prolonging the sound of each letter. It is advisable to practice this mantram for ten minutes daily.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Esoteric Course of Runic Magic
“AR, in the original language, means SUN. That is where ARIO, ARISTO, ARIAL comes from. As a standard it releases a part of the earth to us. Now this Rune in the original language was called ARA, which is the other name that it is known by. ARA means ALTAR. Upon that Altar sacrifices are offered and it is a small stone which rests directly upon the Altar itself where the Chalice is deposited.”
-Arnold Krumm-Heller (Huiracocha)
Practice
Standing upright and in a state of alertness, step the right foot out and use the mantra ARIO. Prolong the letters and syllables and repeat for 10 minutes daily.
Magic of the Runes
by Gnostic Muse | Oct 15, 2016 | Practices, Runes
The runes TYR and BAR are used together in practice to awaken the consciousness. The combination of the postures and mantras, and practiced with an alert awareness within the body can bring about the awakening of our beautiful Essence.
The objectives of this practice, as Samael Aun Weor writes: are to wisely mix within our own interior universe the magical forces of the two Runes, to awaken Consciousness, and to intimately accumulate Christic Atoms of high voltage. Using the mantras we can change our vibration by activating the essential nature and vital force within our blood.
Practice
“The letter “T” or Tau strikes the Consciousness in order to awaken it. The letter “I” works intensely within the blood which is the vehicle of the essence. The “R,” while intensifying the circulation of the blood in the veins and in the sanguineous vessels, operates marvels with the igneous flames by intensifying and stimulating the awakening of the Consciousness. You must intelligently combine the exercises of the Rune Bar with the exercises of the Rune Tyr or Tir.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Gnostic Magic of the Runes
Place the arms above the head, and descend them to the sides of the body with the hands cupped like shells, while singing the mantra TYYYYRRR, prolonging each vowel and rolling the R.
Then bend the left knee and place the left hand on the left hip to create a ‘B’, and sing the mantra BAARRR.
The Magic of the Runes
by Gnostic Muse | Sep 26, 2016 | Practices, Runes
The rune MAN can connect us to the Solar Logos, the divine force of sacrifice and love that is the spiritual aspect of our physical Sun.
Practice
Facing the East, we stand with our arms raised and recite this Prayer to the Solar Logos:
Oh Thou, Solar Logos, igneous emanation, substance and consciousness of Christ,
Powerful life whereby everything advances,
Come unto me and penetrate me, enlighten me, bathe me,
go through me and awaken within my Being
All of those ineffable substances that are so much a part of Thee as well as a part of me.
Universal and cosmic force, mysterious energy, I conjure Thee, come unto me, remedy my affliction, cure me from this ill, and put apart from me this suffering so I can have harmony, peace and health.
I ask Thee in thy sacred name which the Mysteries and the Holy Gnostic Church have taught me,
so Thou can make vibrate with me all the Mysteries of this plane and superior planes, and that all of those forces together may achieve the miracle of my healing.
So be it, so be it, so be it!
The Magic of the Runes