The Jewel in the Lotus

By Douglas M. Baker

The Jewel in the Lotus
 

This book is a masterpiece and with good reason can be called the flagship amongst Dr. Baker's many books. Using scientific analogies, he introduces the reader to the seven fundamental postulates that form the basis of the Ancient Wisdom, that body of teachings handed down through the ages and taught by the Mystics of all Religions and Mystery Schools in today's, easy to understand words. The reader is introduced to the concept of Hylozoism, the proposition that all things, organic and inorganic are filled with life from the tiniest atom to the greatest galaxy. The author describes the nature and origin of the Seven Rays, knowledge of which leads to an understanding of Esoteric Psychology. An introduction to Esoteric Astrology is given and the basic questions of why we are here and where we are going are answered from the esoteric viewpoint.

Your understanding of this vast subject will be enhanced by the inclusion of over eighty images and charts, many in colour. This book is a "must read" for every sincere student of Metaphysics, Esoteric Science, Alternative Healing and Esoteric Astrology!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baker eBooks Publishing
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781625690234

Douglas M. Baker

Dr. Douglas M. Baker. English born and raised in South Africa has done extensive scientific research into those hinterlands of the mind which one might call psi-semantics. He graduated in the Arts & Humanities in South Africa and qualified in medicine at Sheffield University (UK) in 1964. Having taught in the East End schools of London for 10 years, he began his tour of the Western world giving lectures and seminars in Esoteric Healing, Esoteric Anatomy, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Science and Metaphysics. He, more than any other, set in motion the trends towards alternative methods of medicine which have transformed that field in Britain today. As medical advisor to the De la Warr laboratories in Oxford, he undertook research into Biomagnetism and quantum physics their effects on the human aura and dark matter, producing the book by the same name in conjunction with George de la Warr. Through the years he has given more than 15,000 lectures and attracted people from all over the world to his Esoteric Science Festivals and International Summer Schools staged in America, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. His transformative experiences during the Second World War, when twice severely wounded, set the pattern for his life long investigations into the Powers Latent in Man. His extensive esoteric writings are said to be the largest collection in the world produced by a living author. He has written over 100 books, many of which have been translated into the 9 European languages at https://www.douglasbaker.com, and his list of downloadable MP3 audio lectures available at www.douglasbaker.org, include 500 live lectures given around the world and on a vast range of subjects. He has led the field in esoteric astrology, producing with a team, his magnum opus, a Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century in three volumes. This is in addition to the already existing 11 volume set of books on the same subject.

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Table of Contents

The Jewel in the Lotus

Foreword

SECTION ONE

The Seven Pillars of Ancient Wisdom

The Seven Postulates

Postulate One

The Hylozoistic Theory

Postulate Two

Group and Higher Relationships

The Nature of the Soul

Separativeness

Postulate Three

Man as a Balance

The Auric Egg

Postulate Four

Physical Manifestation of the Rays

Ray Cycles

The Psychology of the Seven Rays

The Emptiness of the Atom

The Mind is the Slayer of the Real

Postulate Seven

The Factor of Karma

The Symbol of the Wheel

SECTION TWO

The Nature of the Lotus

The Construction of our Solar System

Fire by Friction

Fire in Essence

THE THREE OUTPOURINGS

The Second Outpouring

Devas and Elementals

Tree Devas

The Story of the Tree God

The Solar Lotus

Saturn and the Pleiades

Neptune and Sirius

Uranus and the Great Bear

The Dragon

The Hidden Significance of the Monads

Rays of Monad, Soul and Personality

The Monads

The Higher Triad

The Lower Triad

The Egoic Lotus

SECTION THREE

The Opening of the Petals

Some Techniques

Which Petals?

1. Meditation

Initiation

The Symbol of the Caduceus

3. The Horoscope, The Petals and Rebirth

The Second Journey Around The Zodiac

The Wheel Reverses

Esoteric Astrology and the Nations

The Birth Chart

Glamour

Discrimination

Self-Remembrance

The Instress of Inscape

Colour, Sound and Magnetism

Colour

Magnetism

SECTION FOUR

The Jewel in the Lotus

The Jewelled Way

Prerequisites for Treading the Path

The Molecular Structure of the Earth Scheme

The Music of the Spheres

The AUM or OM

The Chakras

The Vagus Nerve

The Jewel In The Lotus

The ANU or Ultimate Physical Atom*

THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS

by Dr. Douglas Baker

B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Printed Edition ISBN 9780906006719

First Edition: 1975

Second Edition: 1977

Third Edition: 1984

Fourth Edition: 1993

This Edition: 1995

Updated 2014

Copyright © 1975 D.M.Baker

Little Elephant,

High Road, Essendon,

Herts, AL9 6HR, England.

This is the only authorized eBook of the printed edition.

© Copyright Dr. Douglas M. Baker 2014

ISBN 9781625690234

Published by Baker eBooks Publishing

Many audio lectures and some of the images and charts used here can be downloaded in higher definition for free from our website https://www.douglasbaker.org.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

ART CREDIT

Appreciation is extended to the Theosophical Publishing House at Adyar, Madras, India for kind permission to reproduce the plates on `The Healing Angel' and `The Lord of the Pines' from The Kingdom of the Gods by Geoffrey Hodson.

INTRODUCTION

This book is a masterpiece and with good reason can be called the flagship amongst Dr. Baker’s many books. Using Scientific analogies he introduces the reader to the seven fundamental postulates that form the basis of the Ancient Wisdom, that body of teachings handed down through the ages and taught by the Mystics of all Religions and Mystery Schools in today’s words. The reader is introduced to the concept of Hylozoism, the proposition that all things, organic and inorganic are filled with life from the tiniest atom to the greatest galaxy. The author describes the nature and origin of the Seven Rays, knowledge of which leads to an understanding of Esoteric Psychology. An introduction to Esoteric Astrology is given and the basic questions of why we are here and where we are going are answered from the esoteric viewpoint.

Your understanding of this vast subject will be enhanced by the inclusion of over eighty images and charts, many in colour.

This book is a must read for every sincere student of Metaphysics, Esoteric Science, Alternative Healing and Esoteric Astrology!

THREE GREAT TRUTHS

Hear me, my brother, he said. "There are three truths which are absolute, and which cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech.

"The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendour has no limit.

"The principle which gives life dwells in us and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen, or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.

"Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

These truths, which are as great as is life itself, are as simple as the simplest mind of man. Feed the hungry with them.

from The Idyll of the White Lotus

I've glimpsed my share of heaven and hell

From the unkept highways of my own mind.

My fishlike feet have felt the snares and tugs

Of a thousand lives along that tortured way;

Now shot of piscean shoe and shod with soul

They feel the pulse of "Earth's crammed with Heaven

And every common bush afire with God,"

The anima mundi, heavenly dew

Staring from every eye, glowing from every hue;

Her staff, Sanat's sacred rod, first-born's plaything

Plied with neural prod my back with ceaseless urge

And grew the vagal thongs of sensory scourge,

Sweet pain of the entwining snakes, life's prop

That drove and flogged me to the mountain top.

Douglas Baker

London, England, 1968

FOREWORD

The number of people who have experienced altered states of awareness, to say nothing of outright mystical experience, is so large and the weight of evidence for psychic phenomena so vast that, as Professor H.J. Eysenck, psychology chairman at the University of London pointed out, one would otherwise have to postulate a gigantic worldwide conspiracy involving dozens of universities and hundreds of scientists.

The world is no longer going to accept such judgements from the establishment about our famous mystics as:

Buddha was a hypoglycaemic,

Joan of Arc was a schizophrenic,

Paracelsus had calcium imbalance,

Swedenborg was mad,

Jesus was light-headed through fasting,

etc.

Already, there is a tremendous swing in North America and Europe away from traditional, religious or psychiatric ways of interpreting psychic phenomena and mystical experience. People receptive to such inner states will no longer accept that responsibility for these mystical events must lie with God or that they be resolved on the psychiatric couch.

Far too many creative individuals incorporate qualities and experiences in their make-up that would be normally regarded as psychotic were it not for their otherwise rationality, intelligence, honesty and creativeness. In the past, such creative men and women have hidden their psychic affairs from public view or adopted a mask of artistic idiosyncrasies.

I began the study of Medicine at the late age of 34, by which time I had been able to integrate a stable personality, otherwise I would never have been able to survive what soon became the common knowledge of my Medical School, that Baker hears voices of what he calls Masters and even writes about them in his journal Aquarius. No one ever then, or subsequently, called me a schizophrenic, even though I have always described and paid tribute to the influences upon me of a vast inner world inhabited by Beings with intelligences as high above my own as mine is above an animal. Together these Masters form an inner government of the world and the teachings They give out are to the initiated few in the form of `The Mysteries'. Those inner worlds have always been. Long before our psychedelic era they influenced the minds of men like Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato and Aesculapius in Greece and before that in Egypt, Persia, India and China. Later, after the Dark Ages, the Mysteries reached Europe and were spread unobtrusively by many esoteric groups such as The Illuminati, the Knight's Templar, the Rosicrucians, etc.

In the last hundred years, a new outpouring of the perennial Wisdom reached the West through the offices of Madame Blavatsky. Her inspirers were Masters of the Himalayas, and in an unbroken stream They continued to speak through Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, C.W. Leadbeater, Rudolf Steiner and others. They continued the true tradition of classical Ancient Wisdom given out in all ages by enlightened Beings.

But we must not think that the subjective worlds are populated only by high Intelligences who once lived on earth. There is, for every mortal, one supreme Being that is his very own, his daemon, his inner reality, his higher nature, his own Soul. We are so structured by our materialistic world to think only in terms of three dimensions, that we would automatically think of our higher Selves as being radiant Moses-like images of our lower natures. That would be emulating what has been regarded as the most mortal of sins by most religions--the erection of an idol to worship. Any susceptibility to limit the concept of the higher Self should be offset by a study of the `Three Great Truths' found on the introductory page to this book. It was the Self of the great chemist Kekule that displayed the secret of the structure of the benzene molecule to him whilst in deep reverie. It was the Self of Darwin and of Wallace which simultaneously revealed the concept of the Origin of Species to both men, though they knew naught of each other at the personality level.

And then there was Elias Howe. He had come to an apparently insoluble problem in his development of a sewing machine. Then he had a dream in which symbolic spears suggested to him the idea of putting the eye at the bottom of the needle rather than the top.

An IBM inventor, Luther Woodrum, said that he often dreams about mathematics as a series of images, and he credits many of his most valuable ideas to dreams.

In 1962 I was working on a program ... I'd spent a lot of time on the project but couldn't quite figure out how to optimize the program by relocating the instructions. One night, after supper, I took a nap. With the problem on my mind, I began dreaming about the program--with the mathematics of it seen as a group of images. To my surprise, the instructions began relocating themselves.

(Marilyn Ferguson--The Brain Revolution)

Henry Schliemann, by sheer business ability, made himself a millionaire while he was still in his twenties. He then forsook business for archaeology. He was convinced he was a reincarnation of a man who had lived in the city of Troy, and he was determined to find the city and excavate it.

After travelling to Turkey, he chose a certain spot to excavate. Every archaeologist of note scoffed. Why, they pointed out, that's nowhere near Troy. It's miles away. But Schliemann kept stubbornly digging and to the chagrin of his rivals, he unearthed the ancient city, salvaged much treasure and gained a wealth of information.

A Chinese proverb says A little picture is worth a million words, and rather than add to the plethora of writings that exist on the ramifications of my subject I have heeded this proverb and let a few pictures replace many words. At the same time, some of the illustrations in this book have served me personally as aids to developing the powers of visualisation.

I grew up with a great admiration for D.H. Lawrence and have never found any reason for not sharing his attitude on the subject of Ancient Wisdom:-

I honestly think that the great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... had a vast and perhaps perfect science in terms of life... I believe that this great science ... was universal, established all over the then-existing globe. I believe it was esoteric, invested in a large priesthood. Just as mathematics and mechanics and physics are defined and expounded in the same way in the universities of China or Bolivia or London or Moscow today, so, it seems to me, in the great world previous to ours, a great science and cosmology were taught esoterically in all countries of the globe--Asia, Polynesia, America, Atlantis and Europe... This is simple theosophy.

DOUGLAS BAKER

England, September 1974 IX

And think what it means if God to you is no longer a name but a Life. That is the glory of the mystic, that is the joy of the one who knows. Wherever you go you see Him shining. You look at the wonder of Nature spreading out before you, and in the whole of that manifested beauty, as in the tiniest fragment, you see it all irradiated by the Perfect Beauty that is God. You see Him in the blue of the sky or ocean; you hear Him singing in every bird; you see Him smiling in every flower; and most of all, you see Him in the Heart, and in the intellect, and in the love of men. You see Him in the righteousness of the most holy, and you see Him hiding in the heart of the basest, illuminating it now and then with some touch of human love, which is the nearest of all things to God, whose very nature is Love and Bliss.

Annie Besant

SECTION ONE

THE SEVEN PILLARS OF ANCIENT WISDOM

THE SEVEN POSTULATES

There are seven postulates of Ancient Wisdom that are basic to progress in the study of the occult in any sort of depth. Further, these postulates must be lived if the life of the student is to take the Path of Spiritual unfoldment with any real prospect of success.

Hylozoism, the proposition that all things, organic or inorganic, are filled with life from the tiniest atom to the greatest galaxy.

Each and all of these live within the body of a greater being.

Each is made in the image of `God', i.e., in the image of the one `in Whom it lives and moves and has its being.'

There is a continuum which links all living things together so that the smallest cell does not pulsate without its effects being felt in the furthest reaches of the solar system.

Our solar system has a septenary nature: it is constructed out of energies which resonate to seven qualities.

The solidity and tangibleness of the material world about us is an illusion. It is part of maya.* All is energy manifesting as Fire and Form. Energy and matter are interchangeable.

There is no death, only change of state. Birth and rebirth are endless until karma is satisfied and then reincarnation ceases.

These postulates have been listed in such a way that comprehension of the first leads to better understanding of those which follow. Equally so, through progressive identification with them in daily living, there comes corresponding heightened spiritual awareness and revelation.

Most students will probably be aware of these postulates in some form or other and will already have intuited their truths, expressed or implied, in which case they may pass on to the substance of this treatise. However, if at any stage of his reading the student comes to statements which appear incongruous or `way out', he should retrace his steps to scan once more these postulates. Then, what in the first instance may have appeared to be contradictory will be found to have its roots in one or the other of them. So often, we come to a state wherein we cannot see the wood for the trees. It is then that we should re-examine these `first principles.' * Maya: Illusion; the cosmic power which renders phenomenal existence and the perceptions thereof possible. In Hindu philosophy that alone which is changeless and eternal is called reality; all that which is subject to change through decay and differentiation and which has therefore a beginning and an end is regarded as maya illusion.

The first three postulates are, in many respects, related to the three aspects of the trinity:-

Spirit......... Form.............Matter

Life.............Quality.........Form

Father.........Son...............Holy Ghost

Siva............Vishnu..........Brahma

Will........... Wisdom....... Intelligence

Power.........Love.............Activity

The illustration below is but one of the many meanings behind the 47th theorem of Pythagoras (the Master K.H.).