Three Keys: The Second Key

In the book “Maitreya. Joining of the Visible and the Invisible,” one of the main symbols is a Tree. The heroine’s lover helped her climb one of the unusual trees in chapter 13, “The Orange Dream.” (The chapter came as a vision.) And then, together, they looked down from its top at the world around them, riddled with streams and rivers of life force. Later in the book, the usual tree also becomes an accent.

The Tree in the book symbolized the Tree of Life. I became interested in this symbol in religion, the mythology of different peoples, films. As a result, I came to Kabbalah, which describes the structure of the Tree of Life. I had to delve into it.

The Tree of Life. Kabbalah. “The Glass Bead Game”

Kabbalah was very annoying with its over-saturated terminology, confusing texts until, in parallel with its study, I read the book “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse. It became the second key. I wrote on the website that, for me, “The Game of Beads” sounded like music and caused a feeling of comfort, warmth, something very native and close. Logic is a home that you want to return to as a source.

Suddenly, I found that now, reading Kabbalah, I imagine the images of the masters of “The Glass Bead Game.” And the warm feeling that they evoked passed on to the texts of Kabbalah. They stopped being annoying. Contact with Kabbalah was built on the level of intuition.

Note

From Wikipedia about the name Herman/Hermann: “goes back to Lat. Germanus – ‘uterine,’ ‘close,’ ‘native.’ … modified Harimann/Herimann, a two-base name of ancient Germanic origin, formed by the addition of the components heri/hari – ‘army’ and mann – ‘man’.”

The name Herman is reminiscent of the ancient Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods. The god Mercury corresponded to him in the mythology of ancient Rome. The planet Mercury and Joseph, the hero of Genesis  are associated with the Sefira Yesod in Kabbalah. Joseph Knecht is the central character of “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse.

On the Wikipedia page about Hermes: “Most antiquarians associate his name with the Ancient-Greek ἕρμα that meant a column, boundary pillars or a pile of stones, which served as a symbol and image of Hermes.”

From Wikipedia about the role of Joseph Knecht: ‘…the title Magister Ludi, Latin for “Master of the Game”, which is an honorific title awarded to the book’s central character. “Magister Ludi” can also be seen as a pun: magister is a Latin word meaning “teacher,” while ludus can be translated as either “game” or “school”.’

Three Keys: The Third Key

The third key became the film “Man of Tai Chi” (2013) by Keanu Reeves. Oddly enough, neither “The Matrix” with him, nor “John Wick,” nor “A Scanner Darkly,” which gave food for the mind. It was “Man of Tai Chi” because it … removed the conflict in the heart. I’ll call it ” internal conflict with the devil” and believe that I am not mistaken when I say that this conflict is inherent in many people. It’s the general conflict in my understanding which prevents us from developing.

No matter how much I tried to solve it with the help of my mind, nothing worked. But something happened inside me when I saw Lucifer, played by Keanu Reeves, lying in the dust. Some internal blockage was overcome.

On the website, I wrote that this film by Keanu Reeves was the most important for me. Its effect on my mind was a miracle. Probably, in addition to the film, Dimash’s first performance of Igor Krutoy’s song “Love Is Like a Dream” in April 2019 also worked. I watched the song video first, and then the movie. And it is correct to write that the third key was a double one, consisting of an impact on the subconscious and consciousness.

The day after that, I walked around quietly, listening to myself and not believing that the internal conflict was no longer there. Then I sat down and wrote a letter to someone invisible. I’ll keep the words private. But the fact is, that evening I learned from the news about the fire in the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris.

Ether

Over the next couple of weeks, I listened to a lot of music from different directions, as if I was looking for something. I listened to some of the compositions in full, and others only a few notes. There was a feeling that I began to hear music, or, more correctly, the ether. And before, I was listening, but I didn’t hear it. (Ether as the primary element in the periodic table, preceding the material world and triggering specific processes in it.)

Songs and videos for them began to be arranged in some order. I collected a story from them and published it on the website, writing also about the concert of the New-Age music project eRa by French composer Eric Levy, held in Paris on April 18, 2019, two days after the fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the scrapping of three Ananke: blind matter, laws, dogmas.

The compositions of eRa interested me before, and it was connected with the Tree of Life. But in April 2019, I was listening and watching the Reborn video all the time. I also remembered a musical sequence of four songs of different artists with videos, which “stuck” in my head at the end of May 2017, apparently running some hidden program.