Transmutation means to transform one substance into another. Sexual transmutation is the practice of transforming the raw sexual energy into consciousness. Consciousness is the intelligence, the force, the energy, that exists in all things. Consciousness organizes, unites, clarifies. Consciousness is true compassion and love because consciousness recognizes itself in all living beings. Our consciousness comes from the divine, and we can use it to be identified in life or to return to the divine. Transmuted sexual energy-as-consicousness harmonizes our three brains, our internal organs, and all of the vital functions of our body, physically, energetically, and spiritually. Transmutation is best understood through practice. Combining meditation and transmutation is crucial. Meditation instills mental and spiritual discipline and an intention to move the sexual energy properly. Transmutation fuels and strengthens meditation practice and helps to bring internal silence and quiet the mind. Sexual transmutation also requires an understanding of scientific chastity, and the work on the ego in mystical death. Sexual transmutation involves uniting the mind, the willpower, and the emotions to bring the sexual energy up from the sexual organs through the spinal column in the center of the body, and into the mind and heart. There are many practices for transmutation given by master Samael Aun Weor, this is not an exhaustive list, but is a good place to start. Exercise and Movement Moderate physical exercise is important for the health of the physical body, and also for regulating mood and getting out of one s head. This is not transmutation itself, but can help prepare the body for transmutation practices by regulating and harmonizing the vital energy. Exercises such as taiji, qigong, or certain yoga practices can also help circulate the energy in a general way. Runes Combining breath work, mantras, prayers, and postures, many of the runic practices are transmutational. Prayer Prayer is concentrating the attention on God, in whatever form. With the mind concentrated on the divine, the energy follows. In a prayerful, devotional state the sexual energy follows the attention and generates a certain amount of transmutation. Devotion Devotion is pure love of God, the inner Being. This may be spontaneous or a practice dedicated to devotion. Devotional singing or chanting, with the attention concentrated on the inner Being with love, can transmute the energy and bring about a state of ecstasy. Mantras Similar to devotional singing or chanting, mantras help concentrate the mind and channel the sexual energy into spiritual substance. In particular the mantras: IAO Kandil Bandil R
O AO Kakof Na Khonsa Pranayama Pranayama is Sanskrit for breath work. There are many different kinds of pranayama, but Samael Aun Weor specifically taught two types: Ham-sah pranayama and Egyptian-Christic pranayama. Pranayama should always be combined with a meditation practice to make sure that the mind is concentrated solely on the pranayama exercise. Pranayama can be the most powerful and focused form of transmutation practice. Ham-sah Pranayama Samael Aun Weor, A Transmutation Practice: Ham-Sah: Sit down comfortably: the eastern way (cross-legged) or the western way (on a comfortable armchair). Relax your bodies as children do. Inhale deeply, very slowly, and imagine that the creative energy rises through the spermatic channels up to the brain; mentally pronounce the mantra HAM like this: HAAAAAAAMM. Exhale, short and quick, as you pronounce aloud the mantra SAH: SAAAAHH Undoubtedly, you inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. While inhaling, you mantralize the sacred syllabe HAM (mentally, since you are inhaling through the nose); but you can articulate the syllable SAH with sound while you exhale. The marvelous symbol that in the East makes the chaotic waters of life fertile is Ham-Sah, the Third Logos. Usually, the sexual forces flow outwards from the inside in a centrifugal way and that is why there are nocturnal emissions; when you have a dream based on the Sexual Center, there occurs an emission, a loss of sacred sperm or spermatic liquor. If one organizes one s vital systems and instead of propitiating the centrifugal system, uses the centripetal system, that is, if one makes the sexual forces flow inwards from the outside through transmutation, then there are no emissions even if there may be erotic dreams. One needs to organize one s sexual forces if one wants to avoid emissions; such forces are closely linked with one s nourishment, with the prana, with life that is obvious. Therefore there is a profound relation between one s sexual forces and one s breathing, so that when both are duly combined and harmonized, they bring about fundamental changes in one s physical and psychological anatomy. To make the sexual energies re-flow inwards and upwards in a centripetal way is what matters; only thus is it possible to produce a specific change in the office and functions that the sexual creative force can fulfil. During Meditation one needs to imagine the creative energy in action, making the energy rise to the brain in a rhythmic, natural way by means of vocalising the mantra HAM-SAH, not forgetting to synchronize the inhalations and exhalations of air in perfect concentration, harmony and rhythm. Let us make it clear that inhalation has to be deeper than exhalation simply because we need to make the creative energy flow inwards from the outside; that is, we need to make exhalation shorter than inhalation. With this practice there comes a moment when all the energy flows inwards and upwards. Clearly, the creative energy so organized in a centripetal way becomes an extraordinary instrument for the Essence, a means to awaken Consciousness. [ ] Therefore, the creative energy combined with Meditation serves to awaken the Consciousness.
Unquestionably, it draws the Consciousness out from the ego and into absorption in the Illuminating Void. Meditation combined with Tantra is tremendous. HAM-SAH is the key. *Samael Aun Weor explains in other lectures that women should not practice transmutation exercises while menstruating. Egyptian-Christic Pranayama Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book: Esoteric Exercise of Pranayama for Men 1. The disciple places himself in a chair or on the floor with his face directed towards the East. 2. The disciple prays to his Divine Mother with complete devotion and sincerity asking that she awaken him, awaken his Kundalini. 3. The chest, neck, and head should be in a straight or vertical line. Do not lean your body to the front, to the back or to one side. The palms of the hands should rest on your legs in a very natural position. 4. The mind of the disciple should be directed towards his Innermost, his Divine Mother, loving her, adoring her. 5. Close your eyes so that the matters from the physical world do not distract you. 6. Cover or close your right nostril with the thumb of your right hand. Mentally vocalize the mantra TON. * At the same time inhale slowly through the cavity of your left nostril. 7. Now, close the left nostril with the index finger of your right hand. Hold your breath; retain your breath. Mentally send the Prana to the temple of Ephesus (the Chakra situated in the coccyx, the small bone at the lower extremity of the spinal column) in order to awaken the Kundalini and mentally pronounce the mantra SA. 8. Now exhale slowly from the right nostril mentally vocalizing the mantra HAM. 9. Now close the left nostril with your index finger. 10. Inhale the life, the Prana, through the right nostril mentally vocalizing the mantra TON. Close both of your nostrils with your index finger and your thumb and retain the breath. Mentally vocalize the mantra RA. Send the Prana to the magnetic center of the coccyx in order to awaken the Kundalini. 11. Exhale slowly through the left nostril mentally vocalizing the mantra HAM. 12. This constitutes one complete pranayama. 13. Repeat this complete process six more times (twice a day at dusk and dawn). 14. The devotee will kneel on the ground. 15. Once he is on the ground the devotee places the palms of his hands on the floor, the thumbs of the two hands together. 16. Prostrated on the ground, with his body inclined forward, with his head facing the East, and filled with supreme veneration he then places his forehead on his hands, Egyptian style. 17. Next, with his powerfully creative word, the disciple vocalizes the mantra RA, the mantra of the Egyptians. This mantra RA is vocalized by prolonging the sound of its two letters, as follows: RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAaaaaaaaaaaa. Vocalize the mantra seven times. Esoteric Exercise of Pranayama for Women 1. The disciple places herself in a chair or on the floor with her face directed towards the East. 2. With complete devotion and sincerity, the disciple prays to her Divine Mother asking that she awaken her; awaken her Kundalini. 3. The chest, neck, and head should be in a straight or vertical line. Do not lean your body to the front, to the back or to one side. The palms of the hands should rest on your legs in a very natural position. 4. The mind of the disciple should be directed towards her Innermost, her Divine Mother, loving her, adoring her.
5. Close your eyes so that the matters of the physical world do not distract you. 6. Cover or close the left nostril with the index finger of your right hand. Mentally vocalizing the mantra TON. At the same time inhale slowly through the cavity of the right nostril. 7. Now, close the right nostril with the thumb of your right hand. Hold your breath; retain your breath. Mentally send the Prana to the temple of Ephesus (the Chakra situated in the coccyx, the small bone at the lower extremity of the spinal column) to awaken the Kundalini and mentally pronounce the mantra SA. 8. Now exhale slowly from the left nostril mentally vocalizing the mantra HAM. 9. Next, close the right nostril with the thumb. 10. Inhale the life, the Prana through the left nostril, mentally vocalizing the mantra TON. Close both of your nostrils with the index finger and the thumb and retain the breath and mentally vocalize the mantra RA. Send the Prana to the magnetic center of the coccyx in order to awaken the Kundalini. 11. Exhale slowly through the right nostril mentally vocalizing the mantra HAM. 12. This constitutes one complete pranayama. 13. Repeat this complete process six more times (twice a day at dusk and dawn). 14. The devotee will kneel on the ground. 15. Once she is on the ground the devotee then places the palms of her hands on the floor, the thumbs of the two hands together. 16. Prostrated on the ground, with her body inclined forward, with her head facing the East, and filled with supreme veneration, she then places her forehead on her hands, Egyptian style. 17. Next, with her powerful creative word, the disciple vocalizes the Mantra RA, the mantra of the Egyptians. This mantra RA is vocalized by prolonging the sound of its two letters, as follows: RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAaaaaaaaaaaa. Vocalize the mantra seven times. The prior steps are all a part of Egyptian pranayama. The mantra RA has the power to vibrate the Kundalini and the chakras, the result being the awakening of the mentioned chakras. The mantras of pranayama are TON SA HAM; TON RA HAM. With this pranayama, the Kundalini can be awakened. With pranayama we can come out of the darkness and become illuminated. With this pranayama we can disintegrate laziness and dullness. Prana is related with the mind. The mind is the vehicle of willpower. Willpower must obey the Great Soul of the Word. Our internal vehicles must be controlled by pranayama. Prana is life. The right nasal cavity (nostril) is solar. The left nasal cavity is lunar. The two witnesses of the Book of Revelation are related to the nasal cavities. The two witnesses are a pair of nervous cords. The testicles (or ovaries in women) are united with the nasal cavities through these two nervous cords. We can say that the two cords begin in the testicles (or ovaries). The two testicles are the two oceans of Life. Moses found his Master between the two oceans. In this chapter, we have taught Egyptian pranayama for the devotees of the occidental world. Those who want to awaken their Kundalini must persevere in pranayama and Sexual Magic daily throughout their entire life. The room for the practice of pranayama must not be humid, poorly ventilated, or unclean. The room should be pure, clean, and neat. Pranayama can be practiced in the country, in the mountains, and on the shores of lakes, rivers and seas. With pranayama, we transmute the sexual energy into Christic energy.