“This is a map of your aura. This is how you complete the Great Work. Once you have activated all these different levels, you have completed the great work.”
- Damien Echols
The Spheres of the Soul
the soul's ascent to God.
In the poem, Paradise is depicted as a series of concentric spheres surrounding the Earth, consisting of:
- Moon
- Mercury
- Venus
- the Sun
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- the Fixed Stars
- the Primum Mobile
- the Empyrean.
It was not, and never was, meant to be a map of the literal physical universe or solar system.
It is a map of the psyche and the soul.
A map of the ascent from the physical/elemental state of being, up the planetary & astral spheres, up to the stellar realm, up to the divine realm
Contains every stage of the Great Work as we ascend what the Bible calls Jacob’s ladder.
4 main stages (Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, Rubedo)
1. Elemental
2. Planetary
3. Zodiacal - “breaking the chains that bind us to the stars”
4. Source/Empyrean
A map of you, of the soul, of your aura
When you are going through initiatory work, you are activating different layers and aspects of your soul
Emperyion - “mind of God”
72 Angels of the Shem Operation(Celestial Lotus)
Decans of the zodiac - 36
Astrological angels - 12 signs of the zodiac
Saturn - (??? on tree of life)
Jupiter - (??? on tree of life)
Mars - (??? on tree of life)
Sun - (Tipareth on tree of life)
Venus - emotional body (Nezach on tree of life)
Mercury - mind, mental body. (Hod on tree of life)
Luna - astral body (Malkouth on tree of life)
Earth - your physical body
Earth
Water
Air
Fire
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Sun
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Zodiac - Firmament
Fixed Stars & 4 Royal Stars
Primum Mobile
Angelic Realms
- Archangles
- Virtues
- Principalities
- Thrones
- Dominions
- Cherubim
- Serpahim
Empyrean
Deus
Ain
Ain Soph
Ain Soph Aur
Moving from the center concentric circle of the Map of the Soul and expanding one’s being and intelligence outward and upward. All the way to merging with the Mind of God
Seeing the entirety of creation reflected in the astrological model of the universeAnd using that astrological model of the universe to understand the map, the ladder, the process of ascension upwards through the elements and spheres.
Monad - Void - AIN Emperyion “mind of God” - Ain Soph Primum Mobile - Ain Soph Aur Fixed Stars & Royal Stars - Firmament Zodiacal
- 72 Angels of the Shem Operation(Celestial Lotus)
- Decans of the zodiac - 36
- Astrological angels - 12 signs of the zodiac Saturn - (Binah on tree of life) Jupiter - (Chesed on tree of life) Mars - (Geburah on tree of life) Sun - (Tipareth on tree of life) Venus - emotional body (Netzach on tree of life) Mercury - mind, mental body. (Hod on tree of life) Luna - astral body (Yesod on tree of life) Earth - your physical body (Malkuth on tree of life)
God Angels Firmament Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Mercury Venus Moon Fire Air and Earth and Water
