In its symbolism chess is the most significant of all games. It has been called "the royal game"--the pastime of kings. Like the Tarot cards, the chessmen represent the elements of life and philosophy. The game was played in India and China long before its introduction into Europe. East Indian princes were wont to sit on the balconies of their palaces and play chess with living men standing upon a checkerboard pavement of black and white marble in the courtyard below. It is popularly believed that the Egyptian Pharaohs played chess, but an examination of their sculpture and illuminations has led to the conclusion that the Egyptian game was a form of draughts. In China, chessmen are often carved to represent warring dynasties, as the Manchu and the Ming. The chessboard consists of 64 squares alternately black and white and symbolizes the floor of the House of the Mysteries. Upon this field of existence or thought move a number of strangely carved figures, each according to fixed law. The white king is Ormuzd; the black king, Ahriman; and upon the plains of Cosmos the great war between Light and Darkness is fought through all the ages. Of the philosophical constitution of man, the kings represent the spirit; the queens the mind; the bishops the emotions; the knights the vitality; the castles, or rooks, the physical body. The pieces upon the kings' side are positive; those upon the queens' side, negative. The pawns are the sensory impulses and perceptive faculties--the eight parts of the soul. The white king and his suite symbolize the Self and its vehicles; the black king and his retinue, the not-self--the false Ego and its legion. The game of chess thus sets forth the eternal struggle of each part of man's compound nature against the shadow of itself. The nature of each of the chessmen is revealed by the way in which it moves; geometry is the key to their interpretation. For example: The castle (the body) moves on the square; the bishop (the emotions) moves on the slant; the king, being the spirit, cannot be captured, but loses the battle when so surrounded that it cannot escape.

Torus fields have long been present in various forms, including plasma fields, charged clouds, structures of photons, and even in advanced configurations of DNA, symbols, and alphabets, to name a few. Current scientific consensus indicates that over 99% of the universe consists of plasma, which can be understood as a cloud of charged particles. Since plasma exists in donut-shaped configurations, it naturally takes on a toroidal form, resembling a torus or a donut. Plasma is recognized as the fourth state of matter, distinct from solids, liquids, and gases. In plasma, atoms are separated into freely floating 'negative' electrons and 'positive' ions (atoms that have lost one or more electrons). This state is sometimes referred to as ionized gas. The reason plasma fields adopt this remarkable toroidal shape is that they have evolved to create a self-sustaining, self-organizing recursive geometry that optimizes their energy for survival. According to hydrodynamics, the three axes of rotational spin lead to the only self-sustaining shape.

The CIA, the Monroe Institute, and the Gateway Process — a plain-English guide and reality check Short version: in 1983 an Army intelligence officer prepared a formal assessment of the Monroe Institute’s “Gateway Experience” — a training program built around guided relaxation, focused attention, and audio-engineered pulses (Hemi-Sync / binaural-beat style stimulation) intended to produce altered states of consciousness, including out-of-body experiences and enhanced intuition. That declassified memo is real, readable, and curious: it tries to translate esoteric claims into the language of physiology and physics so the military could decide whether the method was operationally useful. ia800304.us.archive.org+1 What the Gateway Process is: the program mixes progressive relaxation, breathing and energy-imagery exercises, and audio recordings that present slightly different frequencies to each ear (the goal: “hemispheric synchronization” or Hemi-Sync). The Monroe Institute frames this as strengthening “coherence” between brainwave activity in both hemispheres, easing access to non-ordinary states. The CIA/Army memo summarizes these techniques and the training modules the Institute used. CIA+1 What the CIA report actually did: the author (an Army lieutenant colonel) wrote a 20–30 page assessment that did two things. First, it explains how Gateway’s steps resemble other relaxation, biofeedback, and meditation techniques and where such states sit in biomedical terms. Second, it attempts a theoretical bridge between altered states and physics concepts (quantum, holographic metaphors, “non-local” aspects of consciousness) so the phenomena wouldn’t be automatically dismissed as occult. The tone is analytical, sometimes earnest, and occasionally speculative. ia800304.us.archive.org+1

The life of the Magi... "The transmutation of the mind to magikal consciousness has often been called the Great Work. It has a far reaching purpose leading eventually to the discovery of the True Will. Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind." ~ Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut

What if the very structure of your mind was a mirror of the universe itself? Most of what exists is unseen. NASA’s own scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center estimate that roughly 90% of the cosmos is composed of “dark matter,” an invisible field holding galaxies together. Only 10% is the visible, measurable universe. In an uncanny reflection, neuroscientists tell us that only about 10% of our brain’s activity is consciously accessible, largely tied to the analytical, left hemisphere; the other 90% belongs to the vast, intuitive, emotional and spiritual right side. This symmetry invites a serious question: is it coincidence, or are we built as microcosms of the macrocosm—made “in the image and likeness” of the universe, and ultimately, of God? Here the ancient word tithe takes on new meaning. From the Old English teogoþa (“tenth”), rooted in the Proto-Germanic tehun (“ten”), and ultimately the Proto-Indo-European dekm̥ (“ten”), the tithe has always carried significance far beyond mathematics. Ten is the number of human completion, the full count of our fingers and toes, the measure of wholeness in the material world. In scripture, to “tithe” was not merely to give one-tenth of grain or coin, but to acknowledge proportion: the small visible portion is ours to steward, while the vast invisible belongs to the divine. Religion later narrowed this into a demand for money, but the deeper esoteric sense is far richer. To tithe is to consciously yield the ten percent we control—our left-brain, logical, surface life—back into harmony with the ninety we cannot command. The word itself becomes a key: what is offered (the ten) unlocks what is hidden (the ninety). Numerology sharpens the picture. Ten is not just a number of fullness; it is also a return. The digit “1” stands at the beginning, the primal spark of divine unity. Add zero, and you have “10”: the circle enclosing the one, the infinite containing the seed of the finite. Thus ten represents both completion and a cycle’s return to the beginning. To tithe, then, is to give back your tenth—to offer the fragment you govern so you can re-enter the unity from which all things spring. It is the mystical act of dissolving separation, of folding the visible back into the invisible, the finite back into the infinite.