Sir John Woodroffe

What the pranayama practices do is they are a type of cleansing activity.

They clean out the accumulated dirt or blockages in your subtle channels, which they are said to be 72,000 in number, conservatively, according to Arthur Avalon in his book, The Serpent Power.

the 1918 book but he also mentioned there are two other authentic traditions in the Vedic literature that also indicates 300,000 and another one says 350,000 subtle pathways so of course because you can't view it by the eye and no one's going to sit with a spiritual eye and start counting one two three four right and so forth so we don't know how they come to that figure but these information coming down through very highly elevated people whose mind levels have been upgraded to very high level the rishis and advanced yogis right where their capability the brain capacity and knowledge is we can we cannot even imagine and compare so you are not making pro you you're trying you're trying doing a repetition of a mantra and you're listening to the frequency and you and you're focusing on it all the time and you're attempting a connection word the portal that that frequency represent that portal will blow your brains out if it connects with your body in the standard mode.

So you don't understand that.

Kundalini itself is described as serpent power, coiled at the base of the system, and when it wakes up, it rises upward toward the head.

Now, Sir John Woodroffe, who wrote under the name Arthur Avalon, was one of the people who brought a lot of this material to Western readers.

His book The Serpent Power came out in nineteen nineteen, and he translated and discussed Sanskrit tantric texts, including the Shat Chakra Nirupana.

So the idea of serpent power rising through a central channel was being described in detail in Western publications more than a hundred years ago.

The point is not that Gardner possessed an authentic Indian tantric initiation that he disguised as European witchcraft, because the tantra available to English-speaking occultists had already passed through translation, colonial scholarship, Orientalist interpretation, esoteric experimentation, and deliberate adaptation.

Writers such as Sir John Woodroffe, publishing under the name Arthur Avalon, introduced Western readers to tantric texts and concepts involving Shakti, divine feminine power, subtle physiology, ritual sexuality, and the conjunction of masculine and feminine principles, while Crowley incorporated Indian religious and yogic material into his own magical system, and Yorke became another bridge through which Gardner could encounter these ideas.

By the time they reached Wicca, they had already been filtered through several different intellectual worlds.

Gardner's religious imagination increasingly organized itself around complementary powers expressed through goddess and god, high priestess and high priest, chalice and blade, female and male, receptive and projective symbolism, and the Great Rite became one of the places where those correspondences were given explicit sacramental form.

It's just maybe people don't have sufficient, uh, command of the English language maybe.

Uh, maybe I'm offending people by saying that, right? Uh, because some people say, "Oh, I'm originally from the English this thing, and I've studied..." Like, for e- for example, um, Sir Arthur, I mean, Arthur Avalon, the pen name of Sir John Woodroffe who wrote, uh, The Serpent Power in 1918.

I don't want to go to a 1918 book right now.

I want to come to 2026, and very clearly a simple way is enlightenment, for enlightenment to happen, [clears throat] it is what the word-- Why would they use a word like enlightenment, right? It's like it wa- you was in darkness and suddenly you could see everything clearly.

So this shows up in Sri Vidya as well.

I was looking at the text Kamakalavilasa, Arthur Avalon's translation, and the first verse is that Tripura Sundari is that from which everything emerges.

And if you look at the map of the, I believe it's 36 tattvas that emerge from pure consciousness, Shiva is the first tattva.

which means that Devi gives birth to Shiva.

Some people, according to Patanjali, it's five and five, five Yamas and five Niyamas.

But if you read Sir John Woodroffe, Arthur Avalon, his pen name is Arthur Avalon, 1918 on the serpent power and Sat Chakra, Narupana and the Shakti and Shakta, you know, books that he translated, that there are some, the thing that these numbers are exponentially more, you know.

and so forth, right? And so, you know, try to, you know, so there's not just five Yamas and five Niyamas.

He said there's so much more.

I was reading...

The serpent power, I don't know if you've ever read the Arthur Avalon book.

Kundalini and Shakti.

And then I got into the Christianity, it was from the master Dr.

1910, in the inner life, he read the Sanskrit tantric literature afterwards.

Once dissent English translations existed, Woodroffe's Serpent Power only appeared in 1919.

Chapter 5 is him sitting down with the classical texts and comparing them against his own notes.

The traditional method runs one way.

So let's look at someone who is a known authority or respected authority in terms of information that is distributed.

And that is Arthur Avalon, the pen name of Sir John Woodroffe.

In, I think, 1918, he published a book, The Serpent Powers, a very popular book online.

And you can get the free version of it, you know, the audio version of it on YouTube and you can listen to it.

um with retention and you can follow it's free in my youtube channel you can download that or you know watch that video on that 142 method right uh which um based on authentic this thing so that cleanses All the blockages in your chakras, you got not seven chakras, you got 114 chakras in total.

Seven are the major one along the spine.

But if you read The Serpent Power of Arthur Avalon, written in 1918, from all his research, these are the seven major, but there is other minor chakras along the spine.

I think altogether he counted about 40 to 80 of them.