This is part two of the transformation of the Chalice into a Grail cup. The symbols include:

A Grail cup
A Cross with four equal branched
Four equilateral triangles
Color brilliant gold

This diagram, which also serves as a mandala, is offered to be meditated upon. We see here the Chalice transformed into a Grail Cup, which remains the same purified vessel made of the purest gold. However the four tridents of our previous mandala have transformed into four equidistant and equilateral branches forming a cross. This new symbol represents the achieved wholeness in a seeker, and portrays what happens after the four elements (fire, water, air and earth) within a seeker’s subtle and physical bodies have been purified and transmuted from within the perfect Mold and transformed into the Perfect Model. Hence, this diagram depicts the integration and manifestation of the Perfect Model in the seeker’s everyday awareness. However, because the seeker’s physical senses can never handle or see this holy and sacred Grail, it will always remain an ethereal, evanescent and immaterial substance within the seeker’s Pure Being or soul entity. Nonetheless, this blessed substance will always remain anchored in his/her Perfect Model and therefore will transmit to the seeker’s abstract mind (or intelligence of the heart) all the divine and holy emanations and impulsion that it needs.

An equilateral cross, the major channel of communication, represents the Son of Man, the sign of the seeker’s awakened Perfect Model. It is not a Christian symbol. The four branches or arms of the cross meet at the center of the Grail, bringing and achieving the necessary balance and equilibrium between all the planes and subtle bodies within a seeker.

The central point is an invisible one that remains unmanifested on the axial pole of the world axis. Hence it prevails as the non-material center of the Grail. It also represents the non-material core of Pure Being, or the Absolute Consciousness or Divine Void within each one of us. This center is where the Invisible Presence of the Divine Face abides unmanifested unchanged and immovable forever, and yet its divine semblance and reflection are activated and energized within each Perfect Model.

The central vertical branch represents the world axis harmoniously blended within the ascending world axis in the seeker. It shows also that the earth element, the Malkuth (the tenth Sephiroth in Qabalistic symbology), arises and soars towards the Unknown God or Absolute Being through the vertical arm of the cross, which is also the middle Pillar of Consciousness. That is why this vertical arm of the cross becomes also the base on which the Grail stands firmly on the ground. This base is formed by a triangle with its apex facing upwards and represents two things:

• The seeker’s consciousness has been transformed and spiritualized, so that the self-consciousness of the ego ascends gradually from its physical and material world surroundings into to the realm of Cosmic Consciousness. The vertical arm of the cross shows us that consciousness of the self can open up and become one with Cosmic or Christ Consciousness, since they both belong to the same axis.
  

• The Chalice and the Grail both stand firm on a same triangle representing not just matter but redeemed matter. Therefore both holy vessels are well-grounded within the axis of consciousness, which allows this sacred work to begin in earnest. Thus, we could intuitively say that when the hindrances and limitations of the ego disappear, the vertical axis opens its horizontal arms to form a divine cross.

The horizontal arms of this cross represent consciousness stretching itself outwardly in ordinary consciousness to encompass the whole world of creation. And, when both vertical and horizontal arms of the cross meet in the center of the Grail, their meeting point enlightens and illuminates Cosmic or Christ Consciousness in ordinary self-consciousness.

 The Presence of our Soul Entity or pure Being resides in the hidden center of the cross and this same Presence of pure Being resides in the mystical heart of a seeker, whose heart is continuously nourished and filled with the elixir and nectar contained in the holy Grail.

In spiritual alchemy, this inner work is called “the Work of the Sun.” In Kabbalah, the Grail is the center of Tiphereth on the Tree of Life, which is why it is made of the purest gold. The triangle that forms the base of the Grail Cup is an equilateral triangle representing the element of fire, the fire of Kundalini rising, purifying and transforming the heart and psyche in a seeker. From there, it rises up towards the crown chakra.

The cross, too, is made of the element of  “fire,” the fire that purifies and unifies the different aspects within a seeker. This ”fiery” cross has been created and manifested with the essence and substance of the Grail itself. However, this “fiery” cross appears only after the purifications and initiations are first completed in the sacred Chalice and its fiery “tridents” have done their mystical work (see first Chalice diagram). The “fiery” cross on this diagram is made of the purest gold, which represents symbolically perfected matter and the fiery substance of the cross, transformed into the purest Light of Being.

The above offers just a few hints to help you in your mystical work. Please remain open to any other intuitive revelations that come.

 The Process

• Meditate on the sacred Grail Cup.

After having done all the exercises and the work with the previous Chalice, meditate and reflect on the Grail in this section.

I recommend drawing and coloring the diagram yourself  (using thick paper) so that it manifests and unfolds its potency and quality in your psyche. Use a brilliant and dazzling gold color for the chalice, the four triangles and the cross. Use the diagram as a mandala and meditate on it, as it contains the whole process of unfolding Cosmic Consciousness. I recommend also that you sit comfortably in a meditative position and place the diagram in front of you. Concentrate on the diagram for a while. Then close your eyes and visualize it coming alive in your mind’s eye. Make it vibrate with life and energy. Gradually, make it become larger and larger and see yourself plunge into the pool of energies. Stay in that state for a few moments and when you feel refreshed and rejuvenated, come out of your meditation knowing that the blueprint of this sacred diagram is still working within you. You can do this exercise as many times as you wish.

• Make notes of your reflections and contemplations.

Draw this mandala and color it so that its energy blends with yours and becomes part of you, created and activated within your subtle bodies and place the diagram in front of you. Concentrate on the diagram for a while. Then close your eyes and visualize it coming alive in your mind’s eye. Make it vibrate with life and energy. Gradually, make it become larger and larger and see yourself plunge into the pool of energies. Stay in that state for a few moments and when you feel refreshed and rejuvenated, come out of your meditation knowing that the blueprint of this sacred diagram is still working within you. You can do this exercise as many times as you wish.

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