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There is no clear distinction as to who is worshipped, whether the Spirit, the Divinity or the living God, but only the affirmation: - I am your temple, sanctuary or tabernacle (schrein). It is the first mantra to be presented and leaves the destinatary open or not expressly declared: whether the spirit or the Divinity.
The II mantra helps us to fortify our being as a temple, as it invokes a crystal wall that is built all around the person praying or meditating, and which protects her and includes her within itself. The person praying asks to be transformed in the Light, and for nothing but the Light to be within her.
It's an exercise in magical protection that we find in other traditions, and Bô Yin Râ created it in German with a few rhymed verses with very valuable sounds and it is wonderful for those who can feel these words resonate.
The III mantra is very short and places us in front of a closed portal, which is jumped through and allows the complementary or simultaneous sensation of being outside and inside. Perhaps one of its functions is to mentalise us so that in the invisible worlds we don't remain stagnant or stuck in front of barriers and closed doors, if we deserve to enter through them.
The V mantra is perhaps the most flamboyant and easiest to memorise and meditate, because it is a simple invocation of the fire in us, in others, in everyone and in itself, in order that we become more ablase in the Fire. It falls within the typical line of spiritual fire, so developed by Bô Yin Râ and many initiates and mystics, like, for example, the russians St. Seraphim Sarov and Nicholai Roerich, and basically calls for us to radiate more the spark of Cosmic Fire that we carry and have communion with that subtle omnipresent energy, saying: "Fire in me... Fire in All... Fire in Fire... My self, I!! --- Fire!"
The VI mantra is an invocation adressed to the spirit, expressly named, so that it can hover, fly and entwine us, in order that we can see it in our innermost depths as well in the outer, and be it. It's a call to meditation and to the possible experience of the spiritual unity of beings and things.
The VIII is one of the mantras in which Bô Yin Râ tries to stimulate the non-locality of consciousness, the overcoming of dualities, trying to make us meditate on the force-ideas contained in the prayer and feel that although each beng is one, we are also all, and both inside and outside.
Admitting or recognising that inwardly we are all, certainly raises some problems, because it is allowing them to be more present in our interior. It remains, whether or not we admit, that they are always within us on the subtle planes, and therefore that the mantra only awakens us to be more aware of this interweaving or entanglement of all minds and souls, and so we should necessarily develop our inner unification with the spirit or spiritual self (jivatman) in order to be able to deal well and calmly with all these possible interactions.
Bô Yin Râ presents it as the movement of an initial point, which splits space as a line, widens as it is traced as a compass and finally rounds out as a sphere, in which the initial One is in All. It is an operative mantra directly because of its sound. Bô Yin Râ will conclude his book in the XXII mantra with a new exploration of the senses and powers that can be included or unfolded in the meditation on IAO.
The X mantra is another case of affirmation of the universal unity of beings and therefore an exercise in broadening consciousness, by suggesting and trying to make the individuals feel that they are connected to the World, to others, to Humanity, and that all of that each being is.
Mantra XII is one of the simplest but also most valuable, calling us to the reality of the present, with all its potential: not to be trapped or influenced by the past or future, but rather to focus fully on the present, or the in-between being, confident in the new frontiers and horizons that open up from it. It is a reminder of calm in the face of our impatience and apprehensions
Mantra XIII is an appeal to, and also a sowing of the acceptance of life, of loving, of what we have to experience, because even in losing ourselves we can find ourselves and that in both we are, and so we should be peaceful, serene, in face of such dialectical oscillations, about what is lost and what is found, and because such external oscillations or oppositions are often necessary in order to overcome the ego and live more the spirit that is above them.
Mantra XV is one of the most elevated and mysterious, because it mention the Fathers, the highest Master spirits, as the ones who help us to discover our true name, our vibratory essence, and we know how difficult and labour-intensive this is, the names of baptism or even initiation being only more or less appropriate substitutes to connect us inwardly with our true Self and its name, or just to represent it. This mystery is worked out by Bô Yin Râ in a few pages in his 32-book, opera omnia, the Hortus Conclusus.
Mantra XVII takes up the realisation of the unity of the present and eternity: being pilgrims, always climbing the steps of life, and in which we are in reality the step we are on, or the awareness of the eternity of the spiritual upward movement made conscious in the present.
Mantra XVIII is one of those that works on the dialectic of knowing how to let go of, or lose, the small self in order to find ourselves again by breathing out and breathing in the invisible dimensions and discovering our true self, the individual Spirit, the Jivatman, who lives in unity with Aum, the divine name, vibration and primordial life in the Universe.
The XX mantra is very strong in its appeal to the will that indicates or drives us in the path, in order that it manifests itself in our lives, and, being above us, enlightens and guides us, and become action, become our own will.
Want in me!
Become effective! - -
O super-I!
Convince me!
Enlighten me!
Become effective!
Become me! - - -"
| The XXII has still more verses... |
The XXII mantra is one of the most difficult to understand, and then to feel it, because it presents a numerical hierarchy, difficult to hermeneuticise at some of its levels or realisations, because it springs from an initial triad, passes through 4, the quaternary, perhaps of the four seasons and their arcana, names the 10, the Pythagorean decade, and then the 12, probably from the divisions and signs of the Zodiac year and, finally, arrives at the many masters and disciples who, with ruler and compass, build and discover themselves as IAO, one in all.

