What is Kundalini? The ancients spoke a spiritual life force that flowed through the body in seven chakras, swirling energy centers. The lowest chakra is located in the genitals and corresponds with fear, procreation, and our innate biological instincts. In the middle is the heart chakra, which is associated with Love, compassion, and spiritual awareness. The highest chakra is at the top of the head, the crown chakra, and is associated with wisdom, enlightenment, and intuition.
The raising of the Kundalini energy pertains to the raising of this yin-yang chi life force, a spiritual resurrection, up the base of the spine, through the heart, and into the mind. It is an esoteric, supernatural experience in which the successive chakras are opened up to produce heightened states of consciousness and spiritual awareness. It happened to me once and the experience profoundly changed my life. Embedded in Kundalini Rising, I communicate that experience. May the chosen initiate to whom this is written understand.
The centerpiece is an illuminated cross with entangled snakes that fill the interior. The snakes are orange and green, representing yin and yang, active and passive, the masculine and feminine energies. The cross is symbolic of the human body. Leonardo DiVinci’s sketch of human proportions appears at the center of the cross, but the drawing also has an esoteric meaning. The figure depicts a man superimposed over himself, a symbol of harmony within duality. This represents soul and spirit consciously dwelling together; man in communion with God; the perfect rendition of spiritual awareness.
Two arms extend from each of the left wings of the cross, mirroring the DiVinci image in the center and suggesting that our outward reality is but a reflection of our inward consciousness; that the macrocosm reflects the microcosm. As it is above, so it is below. If you want to change the world, you must start by looking to that “secret center” within yourself.
Eastern mysticism retains a remnant of primitive truth that has long since been corrupted by false religious teachings. Yoga originally meant “union,” referring to the balancing of these polar opposite energies within the body. Acupuncture and martial arts are premised upon marrying the active and passive principles, the masculine and feminine energies within the individual. Arcane knowledge of Holy communion became corrupted by polytheism and the concept that there was no personal God. Man began to worship the creation rather than the Creator (Rom. 1:25).
But the lost “primitive truths” still remain encoded in the symbology of ancient manuscripts and may still be experienced first hand. The entangled snakes in the cross form a labyrinth of knots, representing the challenges and spiritual lessons that must be learned—the raising of the Kundalini. The DiVinci drawing at center represents union, or more specifically, communion between man and God. This is suggested by the drawing itself which superimposes one man over another, perfect proportions of the inner and outer man. Michelangelo’s painting of the Father reaching out to Adam is portrayed on each side of the DiVinci sketch, further reinforcing this theme of a connection between man and God within the individual.
The Divinci sketch appears at the center of the cross. If the cross represents the proportion of a human body, then the DiVinci drawing appears in the heart chakra, the “secret center.” Most people have not opened their hearts to Love and compassion; they have not received Christ, the Light of God, into their hearts: “until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Pet 1:19). Most people remain preoccupied with fear, self, security, appetites, and desires—all predominant influences of the lower chakras. But Christ knocks on the door of each person’s heart, offering to untangle the snakes and liberate the soul. Love is the key to opening the door of your heart to Christ.
Did you catch that—Love is the key. Love is the necessary fifth element, that philosophers stone essential for transmutation. I symbolically portrayed Love as Venus. The circumscription of female nudes revolving around the cross are various renderings of Love—Venus/Aphrodite images. Their configuration suggests motion, a tunnel to another world in which one may gaze at the soul and Spirit in perfect union. The female nudes present as a spinning vortex, hypnotizing the viewer into this other-dimension of Love.
The Kundalini begins at the base of the cross, which represents the human body. A male scribe is depicted at bottom. His shadow, however, is distinctly feminine, representing this perfect union of polar opposites. From this mystical union emanates double spiral helixes of white stars with pink trails. This pictures the Kundalini ascending the vertebral ladder, coiling up the spine and opening up new doorways of perception. Enter communion, ecstasy, Love, and profound bliss. The cyclone of female nudes transports the viewer into a higher, spiritual dimension in which Christ is King, preeminent in the body, and the believer’s life force is resurrected. The adjacent texts read “radiating from within” and “changing the way you see,” which are the effects of the day star arising in the heart (2 Pet 1:19).
Double interlaced helixes are also pictured at right, above the pyramids. Again, this represents the raising of Kundaline energy. Moses is propelled into the sky by the mystic union of yin-yang. His eyes portray an other-worldly perception, another allusion to the heightened consciousness that accompanies communion with the divine. Juxtaposed at his right, the space shuttle propels vertically into the heavens, paralleling Moses’ spirit “rocketing” skyward.
The stars adjacent the moon in the upper right corner are outlaid in a pattern that reflects the same configuration of the Gaza Pyramids. This suggests a connection between these great megaliths and the prophecies written in the firmament. Scripture declares that the stars were created for “…signs, for seasons, and for days and years” (Gen 1:14); and that “day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard” (Ps 19:2-3). So if we know stars portend of things to come, that they “utter speech” and “reveal knowledge,” then what exactly is it that the stars are communicating?
The answer is found in the Savior Himself. God wrote the story of Revelation in the heavens for all to see. The creation testifies of the Creator and His divine plan. Through the “precession of the Equinoxes,” the sun drifts in position a little each year. Approximately every 2,000 years the sun begins the year in a different sign of the zodiac. The Sphinx at the bottom right memorializes the beginning and end of this story. With the head of a woman and the body and tail of a lion, the ancients left us the knowledge that the Heavenly Story begins in Virgo (with the Virgin Birth of Christ) and ends in Leo (with the Lion of the tribe of Judah consummating His triumph over the serpent). The enlightened understand that God wrote the story of man’s redemption in the stars, where no hands could reach.
Faith is depicted as a journey in Lady Liberty leading Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Lion down the yellow brick road. The story is an allegory representing the essential components in the Christian walk. The Scarecrow wanted a mind, the Tin Man sought a heart, the Lion needed courage, and Dorothy yearned to just go home. They went on a journey to find the Wizard of Oz, a picture of God, by following the golden path laid before them. Mind, heart, courage, and a yearning for a spiritual home—these are the essential components to the perfection of a saint. In the end, the group discovers that it was the journey itself that refined their characters, and that, with the exception of the tin man who received a new heart, the rest already possessed what they sought but only needed to learn how to use it.
Christ is depicted in the foreground at right, being condemned to death by Pontius Pilate. I sought o tie together the atoning sacrifice of the Messiah with the Kingdom prophecies. The caption to the right reads, “Building the Kingdom” and above reads “Salvation is here.” A young boy hugs a lion adjacent the pyramids, paralleling the infant petting the Sphinx. In the Kingdom Age of Christ, the earth will be a utopia and even the carnality of animals will be tamed. The promise is that “the Lion shall eat straw like the ox.”
In the upper corner is the invitation to “Join the Revolution” and “Awaken your Spirit.” An angel extends one hand to the viewer while pointing to the raising of the Kundalini with the other hand. An erotic image of a female figure sits blindfolded on the grass. The caption “I Love watching the lights come on” alludes to the new awareness that accompanies an awakened spirit. Adjacent the blindfolded woman are the captions “Trusting God” and “Faith is Fun.” This draws reference to faith being blind; that the ultimate commitment of trust is when one is not led by their senses but by the Spirit of God: “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7).
The erotic female image may also be interpreted as another Love motif. The woman sits, flanked by figures from a famous depiction of Venus, the goddess of Love. The configuration of the erotic woman and the conscription of female nudes around the cross both reinforce the feminine principle as being a personification of Love.
The raising of the Kundalini represents transcendence from death to life. It is that new faith in the heart of man, the day star born in the heart. In the East, these truths are shrouded in a different nomenclature, spoken of as chakras and Kundalini. But the substance of these truths have their Biblical parallels and may be experienced by believers in a mystic path of personal faith in Christ.
Primitive truths are corrupted by Satan when Christ, the concept of sin, and a personal God are omitted. But the promise of scripture is that God reveals Truth to the diligent seeker, regardless of culture (Heb. 11:6). He has written His plan of redemption in the starry firmament and has invited each person into a covenant relationship wherein He indwells the heart and communes in the temple of the believer’s body. The Kingdom of Heaven is thus both a future event in the world and an internal awakening in the heart, the “raising of the Kundalini.”
Larry Word
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