As Above, So Below - An Autobiography
by
Seila Orienta
216 pages; soft cover; 5.5x8.5 in.
This autobiography displays an honest account of the life of and adept. Seila Orienta speaks candidly and open about important and interesting milestones in his life such as encounters with magical order, visits to spheres, domains of negative genii, Orienta’s students and the Bardon League that he founded in the 1980’s and some previous incarnations of the author.
The first part of the book is purely autobiographical, and the second book describes insights that the author has gathered throughout his hermetic life. In the second part of the book, chapters include and treatise in demonology, the element beings, Christ, Shiva, love, credence, the guardian spirit and many more interesting subjects.
This book greatly supplements all of the other books this Author. Throughout his life, Seila Orienta has always set the needs of others before his own. The reader will realize, how much the author had to undergo through disease and financial misfortune. Yet he never complained or asked for any financial assistance. All his knowledge and help he dispensed freely without hesitation to his students in need.
Table of Content
Foreword
Book I My Life
1. My Present Incarnation
2. A New beginning
3. My First Mago-Mystical God Experience
4. Parmasa
5. Chanting Mantrams
6. The Keeper of the Threshold
7. The Bardon-Circle League
8. The 28 Pupils of Master Arion
9. My Friend Kuluch
10. My Visit to the Moon Sphere
11. Involuntary Magical Homicide
12. Lodges, Societies and Peculiar People
13. The Order of the Templars
14. Dispersal of a New Age Group
15. Bekaro, My Strict Teacher
16. A Lesson in Humility
17. A letter from a Student
18. A Necessary Spa Visit
19. Previous Incarnations
BOOK II My Hermetic World
1. Demonology
The Realms of the Demons
Satan
Lucifer
Baphomet
Samael
Baal
2. The Beings of the Elements
Salamanders: The Beings of the Fire Element
Undines: The Beings of the Water Element
Sylphs: The Beings of the Air Element
Gnomes: The Beings of the Earth Element
3. The Extra-Cosmic Planets
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
4. The Peculiarities of the Higher Astral Planes
5. Shiva, the God of Destruction
6. The Godhead of Christ
7. The Personal and Universal God
8. The Guardian Spirit
9. Credence – Akasha
10. Force or Potency – Fire
11. Wisdom – Air
12. Love – Water
13. Consciousness – Earth
14. Introspection: Yes or no?
15. True Rune-Magick
16. Ufology 238
17. Time and Eternity
18. *Past, Present and Future
Epilogue by Peter Windsheimer
Epilogue by Johannes H. von Hohenstätten