The Realm of the Kaou

On the night of the New Moon, the darkest night of the month,
cosmic conditions are more favorable to conscious exteriorization of the KA
and the birth of Invisible Assistants.

On the night of the New Moon, Candidates may come to the Doors of the Temple.
They should stand before the Masters with "their heart on their palm".
Their server is ANUBIS, Guide of the Paths and Conductor of Souls and Mysts.

It is the KA which decides on the development of the Ego.
It prompts meetings and premonitory dreams and propels the Candidate
towards the Way of the beginning leading to Initiation.
On the night of the New Moon, the Candidate,
if he is accepted by the Council of Seven and An-Nu PTAHMOSE,
is put on probation.
A Guide or Instructor will be there to welcome him,
initiate him and awaken him to a different plane.

Dreams are one of the possible ways of spiritual development.
Dreams are recollections of exteriorization of the KA into an environment
which can be physical or astral.
In this kind of psychic development, the pupil is educated by the Instructor
to become ever more aware of what he sees in the astral environment.

This slow nocturnal psychic development, parallel to development in the waking state,
is perceived by the beginner as a transformation of his dreams.
Whereas formerly he saw his dreams as incoherent,
now he often remembers having had dreams which were logical.
He recalls faces, words, the vision of the Lodge and the Instructor.
These artificial dreams, created by the priests of THOTH
around the sleeper exteriorized in the astral world beside his physical body,
are replaced by a real life of his KA,
exteriorized far from his physical body in a parallel Egypt - the Egypt of KAOUS.

Training is necessary to attain this result on the night of the New Moon.
We advise the following exercise:
Every evening before going to bed, pronounce the invocation to Neters to dream awake
and remember the instructions your Instructor gave you (telepathy between KA and KA).

"In Thee, O Divine and Protective SEKHMET,
My soul rests and my spirit ascends to the Heavens.
All the qualities, revelations and gifts you deign to grant me,
Will be used to improve myself and help my neighbor.
Come and surround me, O all you Divinities of the Throne of RA,
Who grant to your servants and handmaidens knowledge of things hidden
from the mass of human beings.

O Thee, DJEHOUTY-THOTH, God of the Moon, Lord of Mysteries,
Who speaks to us in dreams,
O Thee, ASET, Great Magician, Mistress of the Forces of Heka,
O Thee, NEBEHET, Mistress of the Temple, Goddess of the Invisible,
O Thee, ANOUKIS, Who spreads fresh Water on souls,
O Thee, SIA, Who steers the boat of the nocturnal sun,
O Thee, SOBEK, Who makes contact with the Beyond,
O Thee, NEFERTOUM, God of Perfumed Invocations,

Come! Be blessed and honored!
May my heart sing for You a Hymn of praise!
May my ears open to Your Voice!
May my lips convey Your Wisdom.
Here am I, prostrated before You, humbly, but with trust.
I dismiss from my mind all irrelevant thoughts,
All the devils of APOPIS who dissipate or create pride.

My KA, my BA and my AKH are wholly pure and available.
My eyes open to Images and Symbols.
I hear, in the silence and in your presence, Music of the Spheres,
the Voices reserved to the Servants of Neters.
Every object reveals to me its hidden meaning,
Every ray of light clarifies my Senses.
Every Breath of Nature gives me the reason of Life and the Future in the making.

Now, progressing under your Protection, educated by you more and more every day,
I acquire the Light which opens the third Eye
and the sweet Music which opens the third ear.

I undertake never to abuse the Gifts you consent to grant me,
Never to be impatient, never to place myself under the influence of APOPIS,
But on the contrary, to help my fellow man with love, perfect understanding and care.

Be forever Blessed the Holy Name of the Lord of all Gods,
The one that has no name in the languages of mankind
, and is known only to the Lords of the Sky."

The following exercise is used to obtain a kind of waking dream,
dreamlike images, in a state of pre-sleep.
It is about images similar to the dream and which appear in the waking state.
You go to bed after the invocation to Neters.
Once abed, with the light out, you prepare to sleep.
If you are very tired, sleep comes;
but there are times when it takes a while to fall asleep.
When this happens, you usually start thinking,
reliving the events of day and forming projects or finding solutions.
The course of your mental process, until then a voluntary one,
is gradually averted and you begin thinking about things unconnected
with the reflections you began with.

These thoughts arise involuntarily, passively, in the form of more or less clear images.
The practical work we ask you to do is both simple and difficult.
It is simple because it involves allowing yourself to be passively absorbed
by this disjointed daydreaming.
It will be difficult because we ask you to try
and obtain two states of consciousness at the same time:
1) Drowsiness or the threshold of sleep.
2) Fully conscious wakefulness.

This is quite possible:
while in contact with the Instructor,
Images arise mostly in an intermediate state between waking and sleep.

Lying down, with the light out,
choose your position with the firm intention to fall sleep at once;
this is most important.
Then, allow yourself to daydream as usual but (and herein lies the whole secret) with:
1) High alertness, a definite intention not to sleep, unlike the decision you began with.
2) A careful examination of the images which appear to clarify them in detail,
as though they were real images (seen with the eyes).

Only regular training will enable you to find this special state
of half-sleep full of "colorful dreams" shown by your Instructor.
When the time comes you will feel the presence of your Guide.
His KA will place itself just beside you,
it will merge at the level of your head, interpenetrating it.
From there on, the Instructor will create wonderful Images before you in the Astral.

For their first pictures, Beginners often see the path of the Sphinxes.
They have the impression of advancing on the Dromos,
between the two rows of Sphinxes.

Some can see An-Nu PTAHMOSE coming to meet them.
An-Nu represents the Sages of the Earth of KHEM,
the Venerable Masters of Ancient Egypt.
The Postulant should answer without hesitation the questions asked him by An-Nu,
before he moves on to the Door of the Mysteries which,
if it opens for him, will lead him to the Temple of PTAH.

Others will see SEKHMET, the Lion-Goddess of MEMPHIS,
who denies the uninitiated access to the Temple.
This means that they are not psychologically ready for Initiation,
(their psychical development obviously being unsuitable).
They will not be able to walk past the incorruptible Guardians of the Temple.
SEKHMET probes the Neophyte before Her to bring to the surface
the Shadow KHAÏBIT, the instinctive, emotional body.

May the one that knocks at the door of the Temple recall the Words of the Master:
"He that opens the Doors of the Sanctuary must pass through them!... " "

"May ANOUPEW, the Invisible Guide of the Order,
Radiant Purifying Fire in the depths of dense matter,
disintegrate all which, in whatever way, impedes your Life.
May the Holy Destruction of the Darkness come about to bring out the Light of the Spirit."

For all information on the service of New Moon, and for meetings with Instructors,
please contact the Scribe of the Lodge.

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