Pioneering Mystic Lectures, 2009

Human Geography

Linda Mihalic, January 22, 2009, Cleveland, Ohio

  The Pioneering Mystic’s minimum human geography course requirements include proficiency in at least three symbolic representations in the books of Genesis and Exodus in the Bible: The Land of Egypt, the Promised Land, and the Garden of Eden. The story of the Garden of Eden is told in Genesis, chapters 2 through 4. The stories about Egypt begin in Genesis and continue through Exodus. The tales of the Promised Land begin in the book of Joshua, and have never ended.
  The Garden of Eden is the neck and head, everything above the clavicles (collarbones) in the human body. Everything that was present in the Garden of Eden is in this area of the body. For instance, Adam is the animus and Eve the anima, the masculine and feminine aspects of the soul. They function through the pineal body and pituitary gland, respectively.
  The Promised Land encompasses all organs and systems between your clavicles (shoulder blades) and your diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscular and membranous structure between the thoracic and abdominal cavities. It’s the principal muscle you use in breathing. The Land of Egypt encompasses all organs and systems below the diaphragm in the human body.
  What the Bible Really Is: The first five books of the Bible are the Pentateuch, the books of law, called the Torah. The characters in the Bible (Old and New Testaments) are all aspects of the soul, whether impulsive appetitive soul, rational soul or Oversoul. The locations mentioned name states of consciousness, initiations, tests, and trials.
  The Bible is more than just a “sacred text”; it’s also an instruction manual, containing fascinating information about your body. Everything below the diaphragm (the “meridian of self” in the human body, separating the abdomen from the thorax) is called the Land of Egypt. Everything between the diaphragm and the shoulder bones is called the Promised Land. Everything above the shoulder bones is called the Garden of Eden.
  The parallels to the Old Testament are obvious. Moses had to take the twelve Tribes of Israel out of the Land of Egypt and into the Promised Land. Because he had sinned, he wasn’t allowed to enter the Promised Land himself, so Joshua, the son of Nun, became the leader took them across the River Jordan and into the Promised Land. If we pronounce Joshua’s name in its true Hebrew manner, it’s “Yeshuah.” If we pronounce Jesus’ name in the Hebrew manner, it’s “Yeshuah”…one and the same. The name means “Jehovah saves.”
  Only one power can take you up and out of the Land of Egypt and into the Promised Land of the heart center, and that is desire,—which everyone has,—desire transmuted into Love Divine.
  The head is called the Garden of Eden in human geography. The meridian is the thoracic diaphragm that divides the thorax from the abdomen. Everything below the meridian is called the Land of Egypt. Pharaoh is the ruler of the navel vital center.
  Everything from the meridian up to the shoulder bones (clavicles) is called the Promised Land, which we also call Canaan land. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years under Moses. Joshua led them over the River Jordan, the boundary, into the Promised Land, which was said to flow with milk and honey.
  Everything above the shoulder bones incorporates the garden of Eden, the seat of consciousness in the physical. With this, we can answer our own question, “Where do I come from?” Genesis 3, 4 and 5 tell the story of how Adam and his wife, Hevah (Eve) were driven from the garden of Eden. When God differentiated our souls He planted them in these wonderful physical bodies, each with a calcium-based skeleton to hold us upright. He differentiated us further into male and female, and drove us from the garden of Eden so we could become what He meant us to be.
  Here, we are to sow or till the ground, the “dust of the earth,” from which we were taken. Although our “sorrow” has been “increased greatly,” we are supposed to become fruitful. This is the entire meaning of life on earth: Life is the process of learning, of gaining experience and becoming fruitful.
  What is Our Destiny? Our goal is to return to the Source, the Father-Mother who sent us forth. We must return to our Creator with our hands full of gifts of tremendous conquering of self and its impulses and appetites, treasures of Light and life. We are destined to return to hear, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Because thou hast been faithful in the small things, I shall make thee master over much.”
  The ultimate Master is Adon Hakol, the Master of All. This return was the promise held out to us as we went forth from the garden of Eden, as we lost the conscious remembrance of our divine heritage and descended into physical bodies.
  The Promised Land is the site of the heart and the heart vital center center. We speak the Word with our great creative tool, our voice, through our throat vital center, which is protected only by that shield of faith.
  The helmet of salvation covers the brow and crown, the garden of Eden where we, as Adam and Eve, must learn to dwell again; it is our heritage, responsibility, duty, obligation and destiny. In Hebrew, the word for helmet also means “cup”:
  Under the first Neophyte Degree, we learn that everything below the diaphragm, the abdominal cavity and the viscera, is called the “Land of Egypt.” Now we’re at the third Degree and the upper gate to that Land of Egypt; we’re at the outer limit of it, at the navel center, the epigastric plexus.
  We call the navel center Satan’s Seat, the Throne of Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt. “Pharaoh” in Hebrew means “chaos,” or “riot,” which impulsive appetitive soul creates. “Egypt,” in Hebrew, is “Mitzraim,” which means “isthmus,” or “boundary,” and represents your diaphragm.
  Pharaoh being the third vital center ruler signifies that this is the site of a great Initiation of the Third Degree. Pharaoh hardened his heart against God and set the stage for Israel to exit from Egypt, which is a tremendous metaphoric treatment of the ascension of consciousness, the entire process of refining the physical vehicle.
  The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness before they reached the Promised Land. They had been slaves to the lower self in the Land of Egypt.
  God visited ten plagues on Egypt to persuade Pharaoh (subsoul) to let the people go. Moses is a remarkable symbol for us. He’s the rational, conscious portion of man, the egoic portion of soul, who decides to take the people (the senses, emotions and intellect) from the land of bondage, from the house of slavery in Egypt. It took him forty years to pass through that isthmus, that wilderness.
  When the number forty (forty days, forty years, forty of anything) appears in the Bible, it refers to a complete cycle. For instance, Noah built the ark to withstand forty days and forty nights of rain.
  To move up and out of the Land of Egypt, must be a completed cycle. It could be forty years in our life, forty lifetimes, or forty minutes. It depends upon our degree of burning desire to become, to do.
  Moses was taking them to the Promised Land, which is from the diaphragm to the neck. In the Adept Degree, we’re in the process of making that transition, from the Land of Egypt into the Promised Land.

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The Diamantine Soul

Linda Mihalic lecture points, February 9, 2009

  One Buddhist sect calls their path, Vahrayana, “the diamond vehicle.” They practice the yoga that they believe will make them the most valuable.
  A diamond is the hardest natural material substance known; it can cut any other stone, and it reflects the whole spectrum when cut to facet. A diamond reflects then refracts; light fills the diamond, refracts off the facets cut, and creates an entire spectrum. A diamond is the most precious stone, and people often set it in gold, the most precious metal.
  Diamond is composed of the single element carbon, and it is the arrangement of the C atoms in the lattice that give diamond its amazing properties. Compare the structure of diamond and graphite, both composed of just carbon. In diamond we have the hardest known material, in graphite we have one of the softest, simply by rearranging the way the atoms are bonded together.
  Some sources translate “Om mani padme aum” as “Hail to the jewel in the lotus,” which refers to the crown lotus, the thousand petaled lotus, the light that blooms on top of your head. The instant you choose to open the crown lotus, your desire creates a vortex of energy. Your centers, which whirl clockwise, in a regulated, energetic way, begin to blossom. Your brain releases endorphins; you feel high and centered.
  Yet, the slightest crystallization remaining in any of your vital centers might cause a momentary pain. The real action is healing, which is casting off all ballast of the self and perfect integration of redeemed Mind, Substance and Power.
  Light is moving now, refracting off the various facets of your diamond. Each soul is in a different phase of development, at a different state of awareness, but all are attempting to achieve unity.

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What My Daddy Said

Linda Mihalic essay, June 15, 2009
  This is a true story, and so funny it almost sounds like a joke. My dad was the barber in a farm town of 2,700 people in NW Ohio. When I was 16, I had my first date, a double date. When they got to my house, my girlfriend Patsy came running up the porch steps and into the front room, all excited. She said “C’mon, Linda! We’re gonna be late!”
  So I grabbed my sweater and headed out the door with her. Right behind us came my Daddy, who followed us down the steps and to the car, waiting at the curb. He said, “Just a minute, young ladies. Step back.”
  We did so. Then Daddy leaned down and looked into the car, a beautifully restored 57 Chevy. He said, “Which one of you boys is takin’ my daughter out?”
  The boy in the back seat said, “I am, sir.”
  My Dad said, “Lean over here, boy, out closer into the light, so I can see you. I need to know what you look like in case I have to come after you!”
  They took Patsy and I to the AW Root Beer stand at the edge of town and bought us each a root beer float. I was home in under an hour.
  My Dad obviously told my brother about this, because after that he, too, discouraged any date-night funny business.
  Later I learned what it had done for my reputation: Boys all over the county said, “By God, you’d better watch out for that barber’s girl. If her Daddy don’t getcha, her brother will!”
  I never really dated until I was in college.

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