There is a saying: “Where attention goes, energy flows.” Taken at face value, it means that we give life to whatever we think about. Simple enough, right? Every marketing person knows that the first thing you have to do to make a sale is get their attention. What they don’t know is that as consciousness moves from one object to another, there is a corresponding movement of energy.
Before you think you know where this is going, so to speak, consider this: the quality of the energy you set in motion when you look from left to right is different from the energy you set in motion when you look from right to left.
Do I have your attention now?
Have you ever wondered why a male priest enters the Law Triangle from the left side of the altar and a female priest enters from the right? Every movement at the altar is choreographed to produce certain effects. Why is the bread on the left and the wine on the right? Why is the Body served first and then the Blood? Not only does position matter, but sequence matters as well.
And I don’t mean that it matters semantically or because it was scripted that way. It matters because if you change the position or the sequence, you change the energy.
The human body, our body, along with being called our “vehicle,” is also sometimes referred to as our instrument. We use our body in this plane of manifestation the way a trades person uses his or her tools to effect a change in the environment. We use our body the way they use their tools. What we “construct” are patterns of energy. We construct these patterns by the way we move and the way we think. The more integrity our construction has – the more consistent we are in building the pattern – the more power will move through it.
This is why we perform the Mass the same way every time. Not that we can’t allow room for the Spirit to express Itself in new ways from time to time, but the basic structure remains the same.
As with most things of an esoteric nature, explanations are never sufficient to get the point across. You have to experience it. So, here’s something you can try. The next time you are about to raise the chalice to do the transmutation, pause for a moment and look at it while it is sitting there on the altar. Think to yourself, “This is wine.” Then, as you raise it high above your head, and you reach up in consciousness to the Christ Being of the Sun………well, there you go.
Now, imagine doing that in reverse. Not with the wine, of course, but with anything, with your consciousness. What happens when you look up and contact the Christ Being first, and then bring it down into something here on the earth plane? Here we have both a difference in direction and in sequence. Therefore, we will have a difference in the energy and the form in which it manifests.
In neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), we learn the importance of bodily gestures, eye movements, and vocal intonations, and the way these things affect consciousness and behavior. This is not new knowledge. Nor is it only based on the way the brain works. The brain works the way it does because it is a reflection of the Cosmos. Those who instituted the Priesthood and the Sacraments knew the reality of As Above, So Below, and they could read the “stars” both in the heavens and in the body. The rituals and sacraments handed down to us work best when they are kept simple. Don’t mess with them. If you do, you will only weaken them and yourself in the process. Don’t do that.
The Mystic Priest 