Elementals and Consciousness
Consciousness exists in everything. In humans the consciousness is called the essence, in animals, plants, and minerals it is called the elemental. In his books Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, Igneous Rose, and Logos Mantra Theurgy, Samael Aun Weor gives many practices to work with the elementals of plants for healing and spiritual assistance.
Aloe and Crystalized Solar Energy
The aloe is a unique plant in many ways and is particularly beneficial for healing. The aloe does not require the elements of earth and water to live, it survives on the Christic energy from the Sun. The Sun crystallizes inside the leaves of the plant and becomes a sacred substance.
The Aloe and Healing
“The aloe is a plant of great occult powers. The elementals of this plant resemble newborn children. These elemental children are true ‘Adamites’ filled with innocent beauty. This plant multiplies its leaves without the necessity of the element earth or the element water. I have often seen an aloe hanging upon a wall, without solar light and without water, inside of a room. The plant miraculously continues to live, reproducing its leaves and multiplying itself. How does it live? What does it feed on? What does it do in order to support itself?
Clairvoyant investigations have given us the logical conclusion that this plant lives and feeds itself with the ultra-sensitive rays of the sun. This plant nourishes itself from the Cosmic Christ, from the christic rays of the sun. The crystals of this plant become liquid sun, Christ in substance, christonic semen. The elementals of these plants have power over everything. We can utilize these elementals for any type of work of white magic, by means of its elemental magic. Before taking the plant, water must be sprinkled upon it in order to baptize it.
The plant must then be blessed and the following Gnostic prayer must be recited:
‘I believe in the Son, the Cosmic Chrestos, the powerful astral mediator who links our physical personality with the supreme immanence of the Solar Father.’
A piece of silver must be hung upon the plant. The plant must then be hung on the wall of our home. This is in order for the splendour of the christic Light (which the plant attracts from the sun) to illuminate and bathe the environment of our house, filling us with light and luck.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose
The Aloe and the Law of Reincarnation
The elementals have powers that extend beyond healing of the physical and vital bodies, and can also provide spiritual assistance. The elemental of the aloe plant is related with the remembrance of past lives.
“The elementals of the aloe are intimately related with the laws of reincarnation. The elemental department of the aloe is intimately related with the cosmic forces that take charge of regulating human reincarnation. Just as the aloe can be pulled out from the earth in order to be hung upon the wall (in other words, its environment can be changed and it continues to live), as well, the human being can also be pulled out from the earth and his environment changed in order to continue to live.
This is the law of reincarnation.
The Angels that direct the law of reincarnation are intimately related with this elemental department of the aloe. The mantra of this elemental is the vowel “M”. The correct pronunciation of this vowel is made with the lips closed. Every human being can remember his past lives by means of a retrospective exercise.
You can perform the retrospective exercise daily, in order to meticulously remember all the incidents that occurred the previous day, and to inversely remember all the events that occurred eight days before, fifteen days, one month, two months, one year, ten years, twenty years, etc., until precisely remembering all the events of the first years of our childhood.
When the student reaches the first three or four years of his childhood during the retrospective exercise, then it is very difficult for him to remember the events of the first years of childhood. However, when the student reaches this point, he should then practice the exercise during the transition between vigil and sleep. Then, in visions during his dreams, he will meticulously remember all the details of his childhood, because when dreaming, we are in contact with the subconsciousness where all our memories are stored.
When we take advantage of the state of transition between vigil and sleep, this procedure of internal retrospection can be prolonged until we remember the instances that preceded the death of our past physical body, and the last painful scenes. While continuing the retrospective exercise, we continue to remember our entire past reincarnation and all the past reincarnations that preceded it. This exercise of profound, internal and delicate retrospection permits us to remember all our past lives.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose