The Waters

Water  is the basis of life on earth. We cannot live without it. We would die of thirst. We can’t exercise too long without hydration. Yemoja, the Yoruba Orisa of the waters is called the “mother of fishes”. In that mythos fishes are the orisa or the gods. Marie, Maria, or Mary the name of the mother of Jesus translates to “sea”. Jesus the savior of the former Piscean Age is often symbolized as a fish.

Man comes from and out of the waters of the womb.  The second natural initiation in the 3D human life cycle is birth from the womb of one’s mother (the first is conception). The first ritual of the Catholic faith  is “christening” an echo of birth where water is reapplied by a priest, who represents the great patriarch or the Pope head of the Church in the physical world. By this ritual we put  our newborn children under the spiritual control or dominion of the Church’s “egregore”.

It is liquid that figuratively and literally marks  the next level in the life cycle of humans which is puberty. Liquid flows with the onset of menses in the female and with the ejaculatory issue of the male.  

Clot of Blood

A living warm blooded mammal carries the salty blue green sea within it’s veins.  The blue-green waters turn into a red sea when exposed to oxygen.  The first miracle of Jesus occurred at the Wedding at Cana  where he supposedly turned water into wine. In terms of human chemistry this so-called miracle might be construed as a “drawing  of blood” much like that which occurs in a bar-room brawl.

The Koran says that man was created from a clot of blood. This clot is the union  formed when the sperm penetrates the egg. If you open a fertilized chicken egg you will see a small red dot. This is what instructs the mass to develop into a chicken. That small clot of blood contains all the genetic code needed to unfold what was invisible into a visible form.  

Water, Water Everywhere

The first level of water for a mammal  is the H₂0 component necessary  to sustain life. This is consumed to nourish the cells of the body and to replenish the inner ocean which is the blood that runs through  his veins. Blood is the coolant of the human body as machine. These are the “living waters” behind religious metaphors.

In Kongo culture  the threshold stretched between non-existence  and existence is KALUNGA a vast body of water. In African Metaphysics what lies beyond matter is conceptualized as a body of water. Death then is a  “crossing over” in which one enters water. An “exodus” where our blue blood  becomes a red sea. Water once  sweet in  the environment of the womb in which new life is begun breaks to begin the process of birth. Water  as a  byproduct of the putrefaction process of the corpse after death  is foul and has a stench. Part of the ancient and the modern process of embalming process involves removing the blood from the body of the deceased and replacing it with embalming fluids to preserve the corpse.

The Great Transition

The oral tradition of Haiti states that the dead live in a watery environment. They are said to be:

Under the water

On an island below the sea

In the water

In  the Afro-Haitian practice of Vodou the ritual  done  on the first anniversary of an initiates death  is called “pulling the dead from the water.” Individual consciousness survives the death of the body. This is the report of Egypt’s Coming Forth Into Day , and Tibet’s Bardo Thodal to name two written sources.  That which survives the body no longer has  a physical vehicle with which to express itself or act in  the 3D world. What survivies is confined to more subtle vehicles.

What do I mean subtle vehicles? Lets use the example of the four elements.  There is a hierarchy, earth is the most dense of the physical elements, the element that is one full level up from earth  is water. Water is more subtle than earth. It takes the shape of whatever container it is put into. Fire is ranked next, this volatile element consumes it’s container. Air is the most subtle of the physical elements being invisible, it needs no container and is found almost everywhere. Air is vital to warm blooded living creatures who will quickly perish without an air supply.

Man’s nature or temperament is inherent but it is also in a state of flux. Temperament itself was said to be influenced by a myriad of factors, such as environment, the planets, colors, foods, activities, and thoughts. In fact all religious rituals may be seen as mood modifiers.  It is a short step from mood and temperament to the more modern sense of the “metaphoric waters” which is found in the area of the psychological state and condition of man.

The ancient alchemist and his counterpart the modern chemist both made potions and powders. Pharmaceutical industries can change the psychological landscape of the human awareness. Moods rise and fall, tempers are prone to run hot and cold, emotions fluctuate. What triggers those changes can be artificially modified or induced. Man can take a pill to maintain  bio-chemical balance. Man can alter his state and condition for good or ill.

Elemental Waters

When religious literature speaks of water, it may bring to mind the pre-Christian rite of Baptism, an image of a bottle of Holy Water, or of purification by bathing. In Islamic culture the person who is preparing to pray makes an ablution because a Muslim must be physically clean before standing in the presence of the Most High in prayer according to the Hadith or sayings of their prophet Muhammed.

Shipwrecked

Well, we said a few paragraphs back that the Dead live in water. Is the water they live in like the blue- green waters of the living men? Well, the answer to that is yes and no. The temperature of the waters of living men is 98.6 degrees. The dead live in cooler waters.

When man dreams he goes into an inner space. He is no longer in the warm waters of the physical body but has gone into the more subtle areas of his being, his dreaming or astral body. He is then on the lower astral plane. The dreaming body of man is  like a fish, because the atmosphere of the dream world is watery. Of course when we are dreaming in our astral bodies we do not realize that we are in the waters of the astral realms but we are. In the dream the watery atmosphere is like air is to the physical body.

When man wears his dream body, he is clothed with a more subtle body than the physical one, and the astral body has a cooler fluid circulating inside of it. The waters of the dream realm range from the cool REM state to the chilling waters of deep dreamless sleep.

In the dream body one is figuratively walking on the bottom of the sea. The surface of the dream world is actually white like clay. The Ki-kongo word for real white clay and the word used to indicate this dream landscape is Mpemba.

Mermaids, mermen, undines, sirens, sea-monsters, Neptune, Poseidon, these are the fish-people the mythic owners of this sea- world. All the “fish tales” of  ships, submarines, and other water vessels that explore the high seas and their captains or pirates are a form of teaching stories about how explorers navigate in the lower astral plane and the creatures that they encounter. Knowing how to swim and being “sea worthy” have their equivalency in the psychological seas of human awareness.