The Kundalini fire
Also called the serpent fire, the kundalini fire is in the etheric body, around the base chakra, providing life for the atoms of the physical body. It has 3 channels that rise up the spine, corresponding to the 3 aspects of divinity, 3 stages on the Path, and responsive to the 3 major chakras.
(1) The Ida channel, related to the Moon, lunar, feminine, Matter or Intelligent aspect, and the Path of Evolution (Hall of Ignorance). Responsive to the solar plexus chakra, the Ida channel provides the impulse of desire and feeds the physical life and creative urge.
(2) The Pingala channel, related to the Sun, solar, masculine, the Soul, Love - Wisdom aspect, and the Path of Discipleship (Hall of Learning). Responsive to the heart chakra, the Pingala channel provides the impulse to love and continuously contact with ever-widening areas of divine expression.
(3) The Sushumna channel, related to the Monad, the Will aspect, and the Path of Initiation (Hall of Wisdom). Responsive to the head chakra, the Sushumna channel provides the dynamic impulse of the will to live.
The protective etheric webs
The chakras have etheric webs between them that are compartmentalized as each one has its own sacred duty for the human evolution. The etheric webs around the head is very thick, permitting only very little energy to flow through the head to all the centres, to protect the head chakras from the astral world. Because if people are spiritually immature, the full impact of the electric fire would burn the unready forces below.
These etheric webs are normally dissipated with the purity of life, the discipline of emotions, and the development of the spiritual will. As increasingly high vibration achieved through purification and discipline, the fire of the soul (the fire of mind), causes the centres also to increase their vibration, and this increased activity interacts with the protective disks of pranic energy found on either side of them. Thus, through the interplay, the protective etheric webs are gradually worn away, and become perforated.
Three uprisings of the kundalini fire
The 3-fold kundalini fire climbs up the spine safely and naturally through the magnetic power of the dominant soul as it responds to the soul vibration felt in the head - the light in the head. When the soul is enthroned in the head, it attracts upward to itself the force latent at the base of the spine. The soul force in the base chakra, hitherto relatively quiescent, begins to turn upwards to the head via the spinal canal, passing through each chakra, and gathering increasing soul energy at each point. Mounting upward, the kundalini fire burns out all obstructions in the spinal etheric channel and vitalizes or electrifies the chakras. The vital airs within the ventricles of the head are also swept into activity and produce a cleansing, or rather eliminating effect therein.
As the process of transmutation occurs, the higher Cosmic Ethers replace the lower ethers, then the kundalini fire rises up in proper geometrical order.
There are 3 uprisings of the kundalini fire, corresponding to the 3 fusions of fires.
The 1st uprising - Fusion of Kundalini and Pranic Fires - The 1st fusion of fires is the blending of the two fires of matter, which are the 3-fold kundalini fires from the base of spine and the 3-fold pranic fires from the splenic triangle (spleen, center above the diaphragm and center between the shoulder blades). When these fires meet and merge at the center between the shoulder blades, then evolution greatly accelerates.
Kundalini, as it is aroused, steadily increases the vibratory action, not only of the centers, but of every atom of matter in all the bodies—etheric, astral and mental. This quickening of activity has a dual effect of great interest: (i) Causing the elimination of all matter that is coarse and unsuitable, and (ii) Sweeping into its sphere of influence matter that is keyed to its own vibration, and builds it into its vibratory content. Thus, coarser matter is substituted for finer matter responsive to its own vibration. The person then radiates out healing and vitalizing energy through all one’s contacts.
The 2nd uprising - Fusion of Kundalini and Fires of Mind - When the fires of matter have united and passed still further along the etheric spinal channel, they contact the fire of manas as it radiates from the throat chakra. During this period, one consciously aspires and throws one’s will on the side of evolution, thus making one’s life constructive. The fire of matter is attracted upward, and merges with the fire of mind through a junction effected at the alta major center, located at the base of the skull.
The 3rd uprising - Fusion of Kundalini and Fires of Spirit - Then comes the third and final stage, which occurs beyond the 3rd initiation, where the united fires of matter and Solar fires of mind merge with the electric fire of Spirit, at the point from the top of the head. At this stage, the higher psychic powers manifest, the 3rd eye is activated.
We should not raise the kundalini by any artificial ways, such as through breathing exercises, meditating on the chakras, etc… as this may come with extreme dangers. The consequences of premature kundalini raising can be prematurely burning the etheric webs, destruction of matter, burning of bodily or brain tissues, developing of insanity, and opening the door to currents and forces, undesirable and destructive. In serious case, this may result in a setting back for several lives of one’s progress, for one will have to spend much time in rebuilding where one destroyed, and with recapitulating on right lines all the work to be done.
The way for the kundalini fires to rise up safely and naturally is only through self-discipline; mind control; purification of physical, emotional, and mental bodies; dedicated, sacrificial service; and joy. That means when one awakens to one’s soul, it is the power of the soul that will attract the fires at the base for rising up. As one makes progress on the Path, one’s connection to one’s Soul increasing, thus, one expressing more and more Soul quality in one’s daily life, which are love, wisdom, joy, and service.
