Destiny

By ELLIE MAC

In the foothills of the Himalayas, a baby is born with markings on his body foretelling a Great Soul. They call the baby Danak.  Although the local monks are prepared for his birth, as the child grows he demonstrates abilities far beyond anything anticipated. So it is that he is taken to the Alchemical Chamber of Great Potential, a place where Advanced Secrets of the Universe are closely guarded. In this chamber, Danak has access to the records of all the souls who have come, and are coming to Earth. He sees universes, yet he focuses on individuals, and with great power and warmth, guides those individuals, via his vision, towards their own potential destinies. Then we tell the story of one who has chosen a very different path, who moves towards a dark and tormented destiny. It is about the  Magician residing in the southern part of England. The destiny of this soul is on the path of Torture and Destruction

• Language: English
• Publisher: ELLIE MAC
• Release date: Dec 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215923245

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my family. You have all been my greatest teachers, opening my heart up to wondrous possibilities. You've shown me endless patience and love, and always supported me in my endeavors, and as I've embarked on crazy ideas, you have been the ones to support me.

Introduction

The words Alchemist , Master and Chela, have become part of our everyday language along with Stockbroker, Baby-boomer and Programmer. Nowadays, alchemy tends to equate with magic and the slight of hand, the word master with baking, and chela to a person who pays an inordinate amount of money to sit at the feet of a wannabe guru who is less adept at taking one to liberation than a rabbit caught in a snare.

Delving recently into the recesses of my mind, I happened to latch upon a wondrous story which captured and compelled me, in a strange way, and I wish to share it with anyone who will listen.

This read is extraordinary because of its simple profundity, and beautiful in its poetic presentation, and whilst reading this strange tale, I found I had to stop at intervals because random thoughts kept entering my head as if from a conversation with a total stranger.

As I neared the end of Danak's story a picture so intricate and lofty, had woven deftly into my psyche, one I don't think will ever leave me, nor would I ever wish it to.

For it was of a special place, a Shambhala if you like, where high ideals are lived, and a place I would aspire to spend the rest of my days. It was a place of love, peace and utter beauty, yet a place that wields incredible power.

In this place, to those who are keepers of the scrolls, all souls are known and accounted for, and it is a place where the Great One resides.

Any more I cannot share, for I don't know, but I trust you will pass this story on as I have, and that you find your Shambhala soon.

Danak's story is an old story, which I feel sure has been told many times around campfires in the deserts and retold as the sunsets beyond mountain peaks. And now I am resurrecting it along with its alchemical process, and I truly hope it will work its magic on you.

Chapter One

In the peaceful Kashmir Valley, a son was born to a poor fruit grower and his wife. The June morning that Danak first opened his eyes, was full of prophecy and profound purpose. The year was 952 A. D. and proved eventful for India, China and Tibet.

When a soul, carrying a message, again becomes encompassed in a fleshy garment, the tidings are whispered from flower to tree and then onto waving grass. These silent sentinels of hidden things sent forth perfume that day to the Valley of Kashmir.

The mountain birds winged from great heights and dropped to the warm land below. Their flight was a portent. The wild animals in the woods became quiet. The wild life, reclining on shaded banks, seemed with half-closed eyes to peer across quiet pools, as though wrapped with expectancy.

Standing by the sleeping babe was a Buddhist Priest. He had come to bless the infant boy, and in the sleeping presence of the tiny mortal found himself blessed. On the exposed palm of the child a cross could be seen, under the forefinger, and on the right hand. The Buddhist Priest spread the word far and wide that a Teacher had taken birth among mortal men.

The baby grew to boyhood. He seemed to draw his very sustenance from the forming things. His boyish fingers sensed the secret hidden in the buds of fairest flowers. His feet pressed the earth as though to reveal a path long hidden. The soft south wind clung to his tunic and veritably it seemed to sail, carrying him to uncharted seas.

The dark and serious eyes of the youth absorbed all that passed before him, retaining what he saw in the recesses of a growing understanding. He seemed to know that life's panorama is retained in no other way.

To Danak the rivers and quiet pools were the tears of lives past. That which apparently decays was to him but a preparation for greater beauty.

Danak lived not on the surface of things, but ever sought to peer beneath the mirror.

Day to Danak became the dream, night the living. As a pupil he taught more than he was taught. His sandals often graced the tiled floor of the temple. Often he would sit in front of a raised altar, and as the rays of the rising sun slanted through the Temple window and brightened his yellow mantle, his body appeared as though carved from finest substance. It was then his soul was seeking heavenly news.

The animals that roam in the forest of ignorance became as vapour to Danak. Lust, hatred, anger and fear, knew him not. These animals of baser moments found no place within him to dwell. It is only that which is welcome that remains. Lust, hate, anger and fear ever leave by the same gate through which they enter. They shun friendliness, and at its approach hurriedly depart. Man is friendly to that which he knows, and when man is friendly he does not hate.

Danak's heart had taught him that anything that must be carried in the earthly hand perishes quickly, and leaves but the dust of its former shape. Memory alone retains the shape. Why seek those things that perish?

It was thus that Danak approached his Teacher. In the open garden, behind his father's simple cottage, the Teacher came.

It was evening. A wayward bird sought its nest. The mountain appeared as a purple sentinel. The closing flowers sighed as they relaxed in slumber, sending forth the evening's essence. Cautiously the moon peered over a

rocky crag, and then as though satisfied slipped quickly to midheaven. I have come, Danak, said the Teacher. I am ready, replied Danak.

Side by side Teacher and pupil walked out of the garden and onto the highway that led to the mountain.

As though by prearrangement with that long past, Danak became the Keeper of the Chamber of the Great Potential. The Chamber of the Great Potential was spherical. It had been carved out of the mountainside, and represented earthly life.

As every human being is an equal distance from all that is good and beneficent, so with the earthly planet, all points are equal to the heavens.

Within his cavern Chamber Danak worked and found his being. Daily he tended the fires of higher resolve; night brought him recompense.

The Finer Body and the Physical Body

Sitting before a table in the Chamber of the Great Potential, Danak wrote on parchment leaves and these are of what he wrote.

All individuals living in earthly conditions have two bodies: the temporary physical body that is used during earthly life, and the permanent finer body that is used after physical death; and that is used before physical birth. The physical body is limited in power; the finer body is unlimited in power.

The physical body is a counterpart of the finer body. The powers used in the physical body are but the powers of the finer body greatly reduced in potency.

For long periods the individual places all dependence upon the physical body, and the conditions surrounding it. Ultimately the individual believes that he can control many physical conditions. When he apparently is successful he is pleased, and when he apparently is not successful he is displeased.

It is not until the individual learns that the physical plane is but the plane of effects that the individual seeks the cause for these effects.

The search for the cause gradually pushes the individual's activities into the higher parts of his being.

Untrained physical senses often mislead the indi- vidual. The physical senses report their findings to the mind. The mind, after analysing the various findings, endeavours to establish definite mental concepts, concepts that will contain a degree of permanency. Thus the mind often seeks guidance and listens to moral promptings.

When an individual is living entirely an earthly life clairvoyance and clairaudience would serve him but little. It is only when the individual attempts to solve the enigmas of existence that more subtle powers are needed.

Communication of mind with mind is always operative. Seldom, however, is the sender or recipient of a message aware of what is taking place. Such awareness requires rigid training.

The individual can use all the powers of the finer body while the individual is still physically clothed.

Everything in the physical life is gauged by time. The movement of the earth on its axis and the movement of the earth around the sun gauge physical time, and earthly events seem to follow one another by a natural sequence.

The finer body depends not upon earthly time. It transcends such time, and can cognize earthly events that have been, and earthly events that are to come.

In earthly life the individual is a dependent. All objects in earth life on which the individual places dependence are ever mutable and changing. The individual possesses nothing in earth life. Even the particles of the physical body that the individual uses he possesses not. How can the individual claim possession of any earthly object when such object was in the earthly state before the individual's physical birth? To use and leave is the law of the physical life.

Tendencies

Every physical life requires adjustments. Every individual brings to a physical life, definite tendencies. These tendencies prompt many of the earthly actions. These Tendencies are the individual's heritage.

All individuals have group tendencies, as well as individualistic tendencies. The group tendencies are shared with all other individuals. These group tendencies are the prompting to worship, the desire for play, and the search for love.

The specific individualistic tendencies are those that draw an individual to a given work, occupation or profession. These individualistic tendencies are independent of environment or heredity.

During a physical life an individual is called upon to make decisions. These decisions regulate conduct and the association with other individuals. A choice between two actions is often determined by tendency. Thus an individual's earthly life is determined in great part by his tendencies. Following tendency is not always the best way.

A tendency is built up through a series of physical lives, and is constructed of those things that the individual found satisfactory in the search for a wider understanding. Tendencies are gradually changed when the individual finds that they do not serve that more elevated condition sought.

It is only when the individual assumes full responsibility for all thoughts, feelings and acts that the individual realizes definite laws are operating in physical conditions.

When an individual takes birth in physical life everything appears to be waiting; the physical body, its construction, colouring and outline, the individual's parents, the early environment; in fact, everything appears waiting and prepared for him.

All these things found at physical birth cannot be changed by the individual. The individual cannot add height to his physical body, nor change the colouring of his skin; the parents cannot be changed, nor the early environment already chosen. As these things are determined, they are determined for the benefit of the individual.

During the longest physical life the individual meets but few other individuals, therefore those individuals that enter his earthly life have a purpose there and are the individual's teachers. As the earthly life does not contain enough to satisfy a growing mind, the mind will ultimately turn from objective life and will seek a fuller state of being elsewhere. It is the inability of the earthly life to absorb all of the powers of mind that brings dissatisfaction, for nothing can bring peace to the mind that is self-conscious.

Self-Consciousness

Whatever an individual thinks, feels or does becomes part of the individual's self-consciousness. If an individual thinks and feels poorly, can the self-consciousness be contented? As every individual moves and has his being in self-consciousness it behoves all individuals to elevate the self-consciousness as quickly as possible. No other individual can, in any degree, change the self-consciousness of another individual.

The individual's self-consciousness must live from and of itself. If self- consciousness lives poorly, it will be poor and extremely limited.

There is no power in the entire Universe that can change or modify self-consciousness but itself.

Whatever disturbs self-consciousness, self-consciousness has so permitted to disturb.

What are some of the things self-consciousness seeks? Kindness, charity and understanding are three of them. How can self-consciousness obtain these things? By one way only. By using them. Self- consciousness often through its grosser vehicle, the physical body, tries every other method first. All other methods fail, and always will fail.

What self-consciousness uses, lt ls while it so uses. There is nothing in the universe that functions mysteriously. Everything functions according to Just and Beneficent Law. If a thing appears mysterious it is because self-consciousness wants it to appear so. Many individuals apparently thrive in the shallow pool of mystery. The lethargic state of mystery cannot long hold the individual. The individual's subtle, finer body will protest. 

Magic

All natural life is magic, for natural life, as a mirror, reflects a finer life. Magic means mirror. Everyone in daily life uses magic. An individual's understanding of earthly events and conditions is his magic.

If the individual's interpretation of earthly things is from his finer body, if an individual has the realization that the earthly body is but a reflection of the