“Red” Light
As we have already said more than once, within the Magical myth we describe, the essence and substance of life is the transformation of undifferentiated life force into actualized Power of mind.
We have also noted that this process is gradual and unfolds in three principal stages:
1) the “drawing” of life energy (that is, establishing contact with it);
2) its activation— that is, differentiation; and
3) its actualization— that is, transferring it into the Power of mind.
In other words, any being uses life force to accumulate mind through the mediation of activation. To distinguish these stages, Magic long ago introduced a distinction between the “Blue” Light — the Power of life; the “Red” Light — the active form of life energy; and the “White” Light — the Light of awareness. Only the latter Light was considered “divine” or, in the terms of Christian mysticism, the “Tabor” Light.
It is precisely being filled with this White Light that constitutes the highest goal of Christian and Kabbalistic saints.
Nevertheless, the process often ends at the very first activation of energy — at the stage of the “Red” Light: the mind, using life energy, merely skims over its blocks, without penetrating their depth and without actualizing them. Although “red light,” psychic energy (today it is customary to call it “libido”), is the “blood” of the mind, sustaining its mobility and vitality, in itself it is only an intermediate stage — a stage of “toning” pneuma on the way to its transformation into nous.
Therefore, such “rolling” across the surface of objects destined for awareness (blocks of energies) is highly characteristic of the human mind, since it is the least effective mode of its functioning.
Indeed, modern civilization as a whole is built on a cognitive model that implies the maximum expansion of experience with its minimal deepening.
The reason is obvious and has been discussed by us more than once: precisely the Red light is the food of Demons in the broad sense of the word — both qliphothic and liminal predators.
The point is that primordial Life energy is homogeneous, potential, and meaningless outside the stream of mind. In other words, until the mind touches it, it remains wholly passive and, strictly speaking, cannot even be called “energy,” since it grants no possibility of action. Once “activated” by the mind, however, Life Power becomes a mighty agent, carrying possibilities for expansive creativity.
That is why predators, deprived of their own differentiating Power, use Red light as the source of their existence.
Therefore, their favorite — and in general their only — strategy is to provoke differentiating (“free”) mind to “fertilize” the Blue depths of life energy and then dissipate it, never bringing it to the state of the White Light.
This strategy proves itself again and again: the depth of mind in the human mass is usually slight.
“Red” light is, properly speaking, every kind of energy that acts as the realizational part of the Power with which we can work. Any actualization — any fulfillment of desire, any impulse of will — manifests precisely as a stream of “red” light, and only the higher forms of creativity occur at the expense of “white” Power.
Not only predators, but also Magi who imitate them often hunt for someone else’s “red” light — someone else’s energy.
However, it is necessary to take into account that as soon as the will of a knowing being draws from the depths of the world’s passive medium another portion of “blue” energy and directs it into the channel of its realization, it leaves its imprint in that energy —reshimo. Thus, if Life energy in its original form is “faceless,” then “red” light is always “someone’s” (as expressed in the well-known magical maxim: power does not exist separately from its bearers). Accordingly, in trying to use someone else’s energy for its own realization, the predator faces the problem of “assimilation”: it must, one way or another, account for the imprint imposed by another will.
In the simple case of demonic feeding, when the point of absorbing someone else’s energy is merely to sustain one’s life, these reshimoth do not play a special role — although the Demon, in a certain sense, becomes filled with the desires of all those whose energy it has absorbed, which only increases its insatiability. But if an unscrupulous Magus tries to use someone else’s energy for a subtler realization and neglects the necessary protective measures, the result becomes a vector sum: the impulses embedded in the energy stream by its creator, and the direction the thief attempts to impose. The outcome can differ radically from what was intended.
Therefore, for the Magus, avoiding this kind of predation is not only a moral and ethical matter, but also an energetic requirement. The Magus does not strive for chaotic and unpredictable actions, and can fully control only those streams that are created and directed by the Magus himself.
That is why the Magus’s most important task is not only the expansion of one’s mind, but also its deepening; not only the acquisition of experience, but also the analysis of that experience. That is also why the creation and understanding of the Myth — a working system of descriptions adopted by the Magus — is a necessary prerequisite for the Magus’s effective activity and the development of his awareness: being filled with the White Light.
Harmonious Coexistence of Predators
The Scent of Sulphur
Shadow and Darkness
Loss of the Soul
Feeding Strategies of the Beings of the Interspace. Part 1. «Ministering Spirits»
Potential and Potencies
Magi and Power
Sources of Energy
There is an interesting analogy regarding color here. In Castaneda’s works, different types of consciousness and energy are also described, each associated with different colors. En, could you comment on this question: is there a parallel here or not?
Hello! Thank you for a wonderful article 🙂 However, one question arose – analysis seems to always be good, and distinguishing “wheat from chaff” is a great art and mastery learned throughout life, but there is always a danger in analysis (i.e., delving into the essence) of starting to notice certain “hidden meanings” in things, actions, or events, even though in reality, in the actual meaning of the content, they are absent (they exist but only in the interpretation of the analyzer) and based on such assumptions, one may act ineffectively. Thus, at the heart of any analysis lies a huge detractor? Or have wizards developed ways to combat this?
In order for thinking not to fall into illusions, it must be disciplined and developed in this direction. And as for “hidden meanings,” it all depends on their influence on the life of those perceiving those meanings – after all, besides ontological reality, psychological reality is also of great importance. After all, each person lives in a world of their own descriptions, and what is true for them is real for them, so the danger of getting lost in the thickets of Psychocosmos is as real as, let’s say, the danger of getting lost in the jungles of the Amazon. To find a way out in both cases, two things are needed – a map and a developed mind. Mapping the Psychocosmos is as essential a part of a wizard’s development as training their reasoning and intuition abilities.
From this concept, it follows that three factors can hinder the expansion of consciousness, i.e., the accumulation of the Force of awareness:
1) Inefficiency of the process of “drawing” vital energy
2) Inefficiency of the process of activating Pneuma
3) Inefficiency of the process of actualizing Pneuma into Nous due to the active activities of various predators.
That is, in tracking the reasons for the stagnation of development, it is necessary to analyze each of these processes, or could only the third be a real reason?
And also, can we say that the influence of Power Places lies precisely in increasing the efficiency of activating the Life Force in a person?
Each of the mentioned stages can contribute to the dispersion of energy, and the effect of the Places of Power lies in facilitating the activation of Pneuma.
Should the deepening into blocks happen simultaneously with the expansion, or are these processes sequential?
The deeper consciousness dives into the ocean of life force, the more energy it can draw from there. But at the same time, the more homogeneous this energy is. At the same time, if you only expand the horizon without deepening it, you get thin ‘slices of various energies’, the tension of which is insignificant. Therefore, alternating deepening with expansion, with a greater emphasis on deepening, may be the most effective approach.
From the point of view of the Myth and Tradition, is it possible for a person to live in the mode of 100% absorption, feeding only on “blue light” and to stop taking “red light” from other beings?
An ordinary person… does not even participate in the act of drinking water or breathing, relying on automation in these deeds. They are unaware of the energetic component of this ocean. Therefore, they do not transform blue light into red.
However, it is an interesting Idea! – Transformation of blue light into one’s own red………….. I remember there were moments at Power Places when during lunch, after a long hike, I absolutely did not want to eat….. The feeling is such that I am full, even though I have eaten nothing…… But not just out of nowhere, as they say – the feeling of an influx of energy occurs against the backdrop of an influx of inspiration……………. I think the question here is to properly tune the “multistranded instrument” – the human body for unmediated, non-predatory absorption of blue light..
Good article. I would like to know the author’s opinion on a couple of points: “This is why predators, deprived of their own differentiating power”, what is this differentiating power (Fohat, Dinur)? Is this the human mind? The power of Awareness? Is the blue light the focus of most Eastern practices, such as the same Kriya Yoga, where movement and breathing are combined? Is this the practice of deepening – enhancing awareness in the current moment?
The differentiating force – Nahash – is the ability of consciousness to highlight individual potentials of the One as independent characteristics.
Hello! Could you please tell me if there is any correlation between the three-stage process of transforming life force into awareness and the three waves of life? In other words, can we say that the kingdom of plants and minerals produce only ‘blue’ light, animals can transform it into ‘red’, and humans into ‘white’?
Hello! The comparison with the waves of life is not quite correct, but we can speak of the levels of consciousness in such a way.