Inner Temple: Meditation 3

Light a candle flame, or alternatively, use a bowl of spring water or a polished stone as your focus point. Make your vow and state clearly your reason for seeking to enter the Library.

Be aware of a door of flame, appearing before you, guarded by fiery serpents with many eyes and many wings.

There are three steps up to the door, and as you approach the door, the guardians see deep into your heart and mind. If you have anything to hide, any ulterior motive for seeking this place of power, turn back now, for a deceitful heart and dishonest mind will draw the guardian powers against you. If your heart is pure, and your intentions selfless, pass through in peace, and be welcome.

Pass through into a long corridor with soaring arches. It leads to a central hall, where you sense see and feel many other corridors converging from all directions.

At the centre of the hall, under a high dome engraved with a pattern of stars, is an altar in the shape of an eagle with wide outstretched wings, supported by two mighty bulls, one under each foot. See, sense, and feel the altar and the dome of stars. The stars move slowly in a sweeping curve around the dome.

Be aware that you are in the Inner Library, where all thought and knowledge come together beyond time. The Library is the Crossroads of time, space, and interaction. Priests and Priestesses of the Inner Temples come to this sacred location both to teach and to learn. You may discover much in this Library, about the cosmos, and about your true self. Know that you may return here in your dreams visions and meditations, and that the Library is always open to you. Know yourself, and you shall know the cosmos.

Look around you: you see many high galleries with books, scrolls, carved stones, inscribed metal plates, woven patterns, sculptures, pictures. You also see the technology of the remote past and of the future, all media of communication and learning are found here. Down certain long corridors you see living beings, some are the plants and organisms of your own world, and others are strange and utterly unknown to you. Each of these is a library in itself, if you learn how to merge with them and share their innate knowledge.

At this most ancient altar, brought here in spirit from our original temples on Earth that are long since lost, you reaffirm the vow that you made before the guardians of the doorway.

Be Still, and commune in silence, here at the very centre of the Library of the Inner Convocation.

(1st Silent Communion here).

Gradually you become aware of the structure and form of the library: at first it seems like a vast gothic building, but now it seems like a crystalline forest. Again it changes, and you discover that the pillars, curves, and dome, are made of many angelic beings, shaped and merged together in a huge network of connections. The vessel of the Library, its vast soaring structure that intersects many worlds, is a composite of those angels who watch, record, understand, and balance, the knowledge and wisdom of the cosmos.

Be Still, and come into their presence. By doing so, you become the Inner Library, through your body.

(2nd Silent Communion here)

Now you become aware of the Inner Light. It begins as a radiant flame upon the altar of the Eagle and Bulls. Within you, the inner fire rises in harmony with the altar flame. Your Inner Light increases and permeates your entire being. Be still, and be at one with the Inner Light.

(3rd Silent Communion here)

Be aware that you are in the central hall of the Inner Library, beneath the dome of living stars, at the foot of the altar of the Eagle and Bulls. Sense how the inner flame within you resonates with the altar flame, and know that you have been in this sacred place many times in many lives.

Now it is time to return to the outer world. Set in the far wall, see a small plain door, one of many. This is your way back to the human world, and it resonates with your birth, and your natal solar chart. When it opens you see yourself, in a pale shadowy place that seems momentarily unreal. Now you discover that this pale place is the outer world, the place where you began your vision of the Library. Pass through, and return to your outer self. Now the outer world solidifies, and you remember it once more.

Acknowledge the Directions of East South West and North, Above Below and Within, and sense that the hidden door closes behind you. Be at Peace, and carry your new knowledge within you as you live and work in the outer world of time, space, and movement.

(extinguish the candle flame gently, or pour away the water, or cover the stone with a cloth)

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