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Book 3: The Sacred Synthesis — The Complete Practical Curriculum
Contents — 9 chapters
- The Three Constitutional Types: Electric, Magnetic, Neutral
- Mixed Constitution and Seasonal Variation
- The Four Pillars Practice System
- Sacred Embodiment: Constitutional Movement Practice
- The Alchemy of Breath: Autonomic Mastery
- Constitutional Pranayama and Extended-Exhale Regulation
- Conscious Nourishment: Food as Constitutional Medicine
- The Seven Laws of Vibrational Nutrition
- The Complete Daily Practice: 90-Minute Four-Phase Integration
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Back to the corpusThe roots of this work — where its teaching comes from
Western alchemy — the Magnum Opus colour stagesHellenistic→early-modern Europe · c. 3rd–17th c. CEparallel to · medium confidence
Read in full — in the Lycaeum →The Hermetic Museum, Vol. I — trans. A. E. Waite (1893)cited from Sacred TextsCharaka Samhita (Ayurveda)Hindu / Ayurveda · c. 2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchiveIamblichus — Life of PythagorasNeoplatonic / Pythagorean · c. 3rd–4th c. CEparallel to · medium confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchivePlatoClassical Greek philosophy · c. 428–348 BCEparallel to · medium confidence
“Behold! human beings living in an underground den... they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.”Read in full — our archive →from Project Gutenberg— Republic, Book VII (514a–515a), trans. Benjamin Jowett
PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounded in · high confidence
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
ProclusNeoplatonism · 412–485 CEgrounded in · medium confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchivePseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEgrounded in · medium confidence
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
Samkhya Karika of IshvarakrishnaHindu / Samkhya · c. 4th c. CE (school c. 4th c. BCE–4th c. CE)grounded in · high confidence
“The inquiry is into the means of precluding the three sorts of pain; for pain is embarrassment: nor is the inquiry superfluous because obvious means of alleviation exist, for absolute and final relief is not thereby accomplished.”Read in full — in the Lycaeum →The Sānkhya Kārikā, with the Bhāshya of Gauḍapāda — trans. H. T. Colebrooke and H. H. Wilson (1837)cited from the Internet Archive— Samkhya Karika of Ishvarakrishna, verse 1 (trans. H. T. Colebrooke & H. H. Wilson)
The Bhagavadgita, with Sanatsugatiya & Anugita (SBE Vol. 8)Hindu / Vedanta (Smriti) · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1882grounded in · high confidence
“Your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Bhagavadgîtâ, Ch. II.47 — trans. Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, SBE Vol. 8
The Laws of Manu (SBE Vol. 25)Hindu / Dharmasastra · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1886parallel to · medium confidence
“Justice, being violated, destroys; justice, being preserved, preserves: therefore justice must not be violated, lest violated justice destroy us.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— The Laws of Manu, Ch. VIII.15 — trans. Georg Bühler, SBE Vol. 25
The Serpent Power / Sat-Chakra-Nirupana (trans. Arthur Avalon, 1919)Hindu / Tantra · source c. 16th c. CE; PD translation 1919grounded in · high confidence
Read in full — in the Lycaeum →The Serpent Power — Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) (1924)cited from the Internet ArchiveYoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounded in · high confidence
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)