Good and Evil - A State of Mind?

First, let's start at the beginning...

Brain Wave States:

Beta: 14-25hz : "normal" wakeful consciousness relating to the physical world. Typified by scattered thought patterns, distraction, rational analyticl thoughts, filters, and paradigms.

Alpha: 8-14hz : A focused state of heightened awareness with synchronized thought patterns between hemispheres. A state relating to the physical world and inner consciousness, a world in which there is no time or space.

Theta: 4-8 hz : A state of awareness associated with drems and the subconscious. A feeling of connetivity to the collective subconscious/all-that-is.

These "brainwaves" create a dynamic electromagnetic field, focused on the temporal lobe. You don't really need to know this, however.

So what is "evil"? Who and what is the Devil? What is "good"? What is God? Ever notice how close evil/devil and good/god are? The ying and yang, the god and devil, dark and light, good and evil exist in everyone. We are both divine and animal. Our soul and consciousness is divine, and the flesh animal.

The real Trinity is the intergration of mind, body and soul. The attainment of this state is known as "christ-consciousness", "god-body", "shamanism", the list goes on forever. Some symbols of this are the ying/yang, star of david (symbol of perfected man, the fire and water triangles), Thoth's symbol and others like it with the sun and moon, the Sun being the divine, and the moon being the subconscious. This is also the story of the Holy Grail (and the man who comes is a symbol for the world of this concept. Is supposed to be a paragon..).. it is the Philosopher's Stone of alchemists. The tree of life in general is a map of consciousness. The animalistic/devilish/sinful/noisy mind is the Beta thought patterns. It is hard to live in Babylon and not be infected by it. Most people get stuck here as soon as their ego develops during later childhood and never leave. I think that the whole Man vs. [take your pick] mentality has it's basis here.

Prayer is a corruption of meditation. But instead of the annihilation of "you", your ego, and the cessation of Beta patterns, people focus their thoughts on their worries and needs, and thus will never hear the voice that doesn't give a damn about their house, car, job, financial situation, etc. The "original sin" we are born with is this nature. But along with this, we are born with original virtue, or a spark of unfallen consciousness; our connection to the "Father", "Source","One", since that is where the root is.

What is "mind"? Mind is independant of space, matter, and time. If anything, it is energy patterns. The whole of creation is energy. We deal with atoms and matter, but that is just our perception of reality. We are ants trying to figure out an elephant. On the most basic level, matter is energy. Think of it as a 3D graph (like a bar graph being indicative of "values"). This atom represents this amount and pattern of energy, etc. We deal scientifically with particle and wave motions and interactions. 

This is just mythology or allegory for the interaction/flow of energy. There will be only so much that we can explain with it. If you take your thumb and finger, and leave a thin slit, and look thru it, you will notice black interference lines from the waves of light. I think we will find that our known physical "laws" will be caused by something akin to this. The nature and origin of these forces and limitations will be related to the interaction of pure energy. We like to think of the material world as the true reality. It is actually a crude mask over what is really happening. 

There is One energy in the entire universe. Nothing exists that is not of it. Nothing that is not part of it. Nothing within it is ever created or destroyed. It is only converted to a different form, or pattern. This is your God, All-that-is, IAM, etc. Look into complex systems/self organization to see the will of God manifesting. So what are the alternatives to living in the animal/devilish/noisy mind? Alpha and Theta are the thought patterns associated with the connection to the different levels of the "Divine".

"Below and beyond the conscious self lie vast ranges of subconscious activity, some worse than the ego and some better, some stupider and some, in certain respects, far more intelligent. At its fringes this subconscious self overlaps and merges with not-slef, with the physic medium in which all selves bathe and  through which they can directly communicate with one antoehr and with cosmic mind. And somewhere on the subconscious levels individual minds make contact energy and make contact not only merely in their own body, but also outside their own body."

"By mortifying his self-regarding impulses, by setting up a witness to his thoughts and a little sentinel to keep an eye on the movements of his heart; a man can sharpen his perceptions to the point where he becomes aware of the messages coming up from the obscure depths of the mind - messages in the form of initiative knowledge, of direct commands, of symbollic dreams and fantasies" 

"Conscious union with the Father [soul of the trinity] can only be hoped for where there has been union with the Son thru works and devotion [the flesh, material world of the trinity], and union with the Spirit in the alert passivity of contemplation [Mind of the trinity]" 

"If you wish to see It, have no fixed notions either for it or against it"
-Aldous Huxley

(I originally posted this 4/13/1998, so i was probably working it out in 1997. All work in this period was done on paper at first then eventually transferred to text files) 

The End of Antichrist Dogma

Imagine what it would be like if all people on earth could abandon dogma and tradition. There would be no more religious contention, strife, war, or fixed controlling beliefs. Man cannot fix God, because God continuously changes. God is beyond measurement, beyond the measured and relative dimensions of Man, so why should we have a fixed and unchanging belief about God. 

Dogma is fixed and unchanging. It is cold like a rock. It causes hatred, war, stubborness, prejudice, and all wickedness in mankind. its roots are deeply embedded in Man's left-sided thinking. Man's knowledge is less than divine, it will always be less than the right-sided trinity of 777. It will always be 666, unless God intervenes before we destroy ourselves. The antichrist is of the wicked, because he consumes and fixes beliefs on behalf of his own powerful ego. 

The Christ is of the good, because he liberates thinking, so changes can take place, in order to help us reach toward the source, which is symbolically represented by 888. Jesus Christ was a Heretic, who became persecuted with hatred, and then sacrificed, because his new ideas did not conform to the "I KNOW" of those who had severe self-opinion of themselves. 

Think about it!!. Without Change, man becomes stagnant. It will always be a mental conflict! to our left-sided way of thinking.

(-: Y :-)

Gary S.

May 6 1998, 3:00 am

(I am not Gary S)

The Pole Shift Caused an Earthquake That's Causing the Tower to Crumble

"The Magickal Title of this card is The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. The path of the Tower is the first reciprocal path encountered by the initiate aspiring upwards on the Tree. It equilibriates between Hod (intellect) and Netzach (emotions), thus it straddles all three Pillars on the Tree. It is "The Victory over Splendor. Venus acting through Mars upon Mercury. Avenging force." This is one of the most difficult paths to undertake on the Tree, because it involves sudden and complete destruction of old "realities." To one undertaking this path, it can be quite an ordeal. Yet the total destruction of the Tower is followed by a rebuilding and restructuring which reveals a portion of the Higher Self and balances the dualities inherent in all humans the conflict between mind (Hod) and emotions (Netzach). The balancing of intellect. an desire is the crucial task that the student must complete on the 27th path. The Tower symbolizes the beliefs which each person has built up through life since childhood those beliefs that were programmed into the child by parents, teachers, institutions and peers. The Tower is built in this fashion, one brick, one belief at a time and is fortified in adulthood like a tower under siege. The Tower is protected by the Ego from attack by other belief systems which disagree with it. Thus it becomes a closed armory, firmly shut against the free flow of expression from the outside as well as from the inside.

The Tower is struck by the lightning flash, which represents sudden illumination or realization. Thus the old "realities" are changed forever ... destroyed for all intents and purposes. The Lightning Bolt is Mars, for it is the force of Geburah in action, blasting away outmoded beliefs. (The process of inner growth is not pleasant, and must be painful at times.)

The crown at the top of the Tower is Kether, the head of the old belief system which is sheared off. The crown itself can also be seen as a phallic symbol alluding to the sexual energy of Netzach which is encountered on this path. The Dukes of Edom who fall from the Tower are the Lords of Chaos; imperfect forms which are sent back into the nothingness from whence they came. The Tower itself is of Eastern design because it alludes to the story of the Tower of Babel (the limitations of language and the confusions which arise from it).

The mouth at the bottom of the card refers to the Hebrew letter Peh, meaning literally mouth" which is the vehicle of language as well as vibration. It is the vibration of Geburah which tears the Tower apart.

The background of the card is mainly red, the color of the path of Peh, and the Trees of Light and of Darkness are depicted in the flashing martial colors of red and green.

[source: Golden Dawn Tarot, I think. I don't discriminate, when its good its good. But don't take it as an endorsement of the Golden Dawn]

A Hermetic Pole Shift

Lets suppose the pole shift does occur. But using the Hermetic art, instead of it being physical earth, it is instead a transmutation effect on the brain, i.e. a shift of consciousness from the left-side of the brain (Northern hemisphere), to the right-side of the brain (Southern hemisphere).

Wow we then have a mental earthquake, (a conflict of reasoning) . All our exact scientific theories and logical reasoning gets blown apart. Our whole world falls apart around us. No material rocks (measurable foundations), or great mountains (egos) to hide behind. Only we see the eternity of it all.

Scarry huh!. Atlantis rising from the grave

(-:Y:-)
Gary S
May 4 1998
(I'm not Gary)

Michael Maier - Atalanta Fugiens [1617]

"Michael Maier (1568–1622) was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg, a learned alchemist, epigramist and amateur composer.[1]

Around 1599 he became interested in alchemy and attempted to create an alchemical concordance, synthesizing the works of different authors.[1] In 1608 he went to Prague, and on 19 September 1609 he formally entered the service of Rudolf II as his physician and imperial counsellor. Ten days later, Rudolf raised him to the hereditary nobility and gave him the title of imperial count palatine.[1] Around this time, Maier published an extremely limited print run of De Medicina Regia et vere Heroica, Coelidonia (1609), including in it his autobiography.

His Atalanta Fugiens, an alchemical emblem book, was published in 1617. Alongside images, poems, and discussion, it included fifty pieces of music in the form of fugues, the form itself being a pun on Atalanta "fleeing". In 1619 Maier became the physician of Landgrave Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). In 1620 he moved to Magdeburg to practice medicine, where he died at the age of 54, leaving a noteworthy quantity of unpublished works.

A devout Lutheran all his life, Michael Maier had a strong influence on Sir Isaac Newton. He was also involved in the Rosicrucian movement that appeared around this time, which afforded part of the matter of his Themis aurea.[2]

Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta in flight) is an emblem book by Michael Maier (1568-1622), published by Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim in 1617 (2nd edition 1618). It consists of 50 discourses with illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by an epigrammatic verse, prose and a musical fugue. It may therefore be considered an early example of multimedia."

- wikipedia

[Emblems after the jump...]

Al-Muʿtazilah (early Islamic theology based on reason and rational thought)

Mu`tazila (Arabic: المعتزلة‎ al-muʿtazilah) is a school of Islamic theology based on reason and rational thought[1] that flourished in the cities of Basra and Baghdad, both in present-day Iraq, during the 8th–10th centuries. The adherents of the Mu`tazili school are best known for their denying the status of the Qur'an as uncreated and co-eternal with God.[2] From this premise, the Mu`tazili school of Kalam proceeded to posit that the injunctions of God are accessible to rational thought and inquiry: because knowledge is derived from reason, reason is the "final arbiter" in distinguishing right from wrong.[3] It follows, in Mu`tazili reasoning, that "sacred precedent" is not an effective means of determining what is just, as what is obligatory in religion is only obligatory "by virtue of reason."[3]

The movement emerged in the Umayyad Era, and reached its height in the Abbasid period. After the 10th century, movement declined and lost any influence it had held. It is viewed as heretical by many scholars in modern mainstream Islamic theology for its tendency to deny the Qur'an being eternal, and to allow for the possibility of free will and thus opposing the strict determinism of mainstream thought. In contemporary jihadism, supposed allegations of being a mu`tazili have been used between rivalling group as a means of denouncing their credibility.[4]

The name muʿtazili is derived from the reflexive stem VIII (iftaʿala) of the triconsonantal root ع-ز-ل "separate, segregate" (as in اعتزل iʿtazala "to separate (oneself); to withdraw from".[5]

The name is derived from the founder's "withdrawal" from the study circle of Hasan of Basra over a theological disagreement: Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭā' asked about the legal state of a sinner: is a person who has committed a serious sin a believer or an unbeliever? Hasan answered they remain a Muslim. Wasil dissented, suggesting that a sinner was neither a believer nor an unbeliever, and withdrew from the study circle. Others followed to form a new circle, including ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd. Hasan's remark, "Wāṣil has withdrawn from us", is said to be the origin of the movement's name.[6][7]

The group later referred to themselves as Ahl al-Tawḥīd wa l-ʿAḍl (اهل العدل و التوحيد, "people of unity and justice",[citation needed] and the name muʿtazili was in origin used by their adversaries.

The verb i'tizal is also used to designate a neutral party in a dispute (as in "withdrawing" from a dispute between two factions). According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "The name [Mutazilah] first appears in early Islāmic history in the dispute over ʿAlī's leadership of the Muslim community after the murder of the third caliph, ʿUthmān (656). Those who would neither condemn nor sanction ʿAlī or his opponents but took a middle position were termed the Muʿtazilah." Nallino (1916) argued that the theological Mu'tazilism of Wasil and his successors was merely a continuation of this initial political Mu'tazilism.[8]

Mu'tazili theology originated in the 8th century in Basra (Iraq) when Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭā' (d. 131 AH/748 AD) left the teaching lessons of Hasan of Basra after a theological dispute regarding the issue of al-Manzilah bayna al-Manzilatayn (a position between two positions); thus he, and his followers, including ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd (d. 144 AH/ 761 AD), were labelled Mu'tazili. Hasan's remark, "Wāṣil has withdrawn from us", is said to be the origin of the movement's name.[6]

Though Mu'tazilis later relied on logic and different aspects of early Islamic philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and Hellenistic philosophy, the truths of Islam were their starting point and ultimate reference.[9] The accusations leveled against them by rival schools of theology that they gave absolute authority to extra-Islamic paradigms reflect more the fierce polemics between various schools of theology than any objective reality. For instance, Mu'tazilis adopted unanimously the doctrine of creation ex nihilo, contrary to certain Muslim philosophers who, with the exception of al-Kindi, believed in the eternity of the world in some form or another.[10] It was usually Muslim philosophers, not the Muslim theologians generally speaking, who took Greek and Hellenistic philosophy as a starting point and master conceptual framework for analyzing and investigating reality.

This school of thought emerged as a reaction to political tyranny; it brought answers to political questions, or questions raised by current political circumstances. The philosophical and metaphysical elements, and influence of the Greek philosophy were added afterward during the Abbasid Caliphate. The founders of the Abbasid dynasty strategically supported this school to bring political revolution against Umayyad Caliphate. Once their authority established, they also turned against this school of thought
-wikipedia

The House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بيت الحكمة‎; Bayt al-Hikma) was a major intellectual center during the Islamic Golden Age. The House of Wisdom was founded by Caliph Harun al-Rashid (reigned 786–809) and culminated under his son al-Ma'mun (reigned 813–833) who is credited with its formal institution. Al-Ma'mun is also credited with bringing many well-known scholars to share information, ideas, and culture in the House of Wisdom. Based in Baghdad from the 9th to 13th centuries, many learned scholars including those of Jewish or Christian background[1] were part of this research and educational institute. Besides translating books into Arabic and preserving them, scholars associated with the House of Wisdom also made many remarkable original contributions to diverse fields.[2][3]

During the reign of al-Ma'mun, astronomical observatories were set up, and the House was an unrivaled center for the study of humanities and for science in medieval Islam, including mathematics, astronomy, medicine, alchemy and chemistry, zoology, and geography and cartography. Drawing on Greek, Indian and Persian texts, the scholars accumulated a great collection of world knowledge, and built on it through their own discoveries. By the middle of the ninth century, the House of Wisdom was the largest repository of books in the world.[3]

It was destroyed in the sack of the city following the Mongol Siege of Baghdad (1258).

The preservation and development of human knowledge was a cherished tradition of the Eastern Muslim and Persian Zoroastrians.[4] During the 4th through the 7th centuries, scholarly work in the Greek and Syriac languages was either newly initiated, or carried on from the Hellenistic period. Centers of learning and of transmission of classical wisdom included colleges such as the School of Nisibis and later the School of Edessa, and the renowned hospital and medical academy of Jundishapur; libraries included the Library of Alexandria and the Imperial Library of Constantinople; and other centers of translation and learning functioned at Merv, Salonika, Nishapur and Ctesiphon situated just south of what was later to become Baghdad.[5][6]
-wikipedia

The Brethren of Purity (also The Brethren of Sincerity)

The Brethren of Purity (Arabic: اخوان‌الصفا‎ ikhwãn al-safã; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society[1] of Muslim philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 8th century CE.

The structure of this mysterious organization and the identities of its members have never been clear.[2][3] Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasa'il Ikhwan al-safa'), a giant compendium of 52 epistles that would greatly influence later encyclopedias. A good deal of Muslim and Western scholarship has been spent on just pinning down the identities of the Brethren and the century in which they were active.

The Arabic phrase Ikhwan al-Safa (short for, among many possible transcriptions, Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafā wa Ahl al-Ḥamd wa abnāʾ al-Majd,[4] meaning "Brethren of Purity, Loyal Friends, People worthy of praise and Sons of Glory") can be translated as either the "Brethren of Purity" or the "Brethren of Sincerity"; various scholars such as Ian Netton prefer "of Purity" because of the group's ascetic impulses towards purity and salvation.

In this Brotherhood, self is forgotten; all act by the help of each, all rely upon each for succour and advice, and if a Brother sees it will be good for another that he should sacrifice his life for him, he willingly gives it.[5]

The Brethren regularly met on a fixed schedule. The meetings apparently took place on three evenings of each month: once near the beginning, in which speeches were given, another towards the middle, apparently concerning astronomy and astrology, and the third between the end of the month and the 25th of that month; during the third one, they recited hymns with philosophical content.[6] During their meetings and possibly also during the three feasts they held, on the dates of the sun's entry into the Zodiac signs "Ram, Cancer, and Balance"), besides the usual lectures and discussions, they would engage in some manner of liturgy reminiscent of the Harranians.[7]

-wikipedia

Revelations and the Perfect Fifth.

There are two references to the 144,000 in the Book of Revelations. These "chosen" are the 12 legions mentioned in the Gospel of Mark, 12 000 per legion, 12 legions, 144,000. The references in Revelation are at the beginning of chapters 7 and 14. 7 x 2 = 14. 72 x 2 = 144. Or, 2/5s the circumference of a circle (72, 144, 216, 288, 360/0). This 3:2 ratio is known as the Perfect Fifth:

"In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so. The perfect fifth may be derived from the harmonic series as the interval between the second and third harmonics"

Rev 7:2-4 He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

Rev 14:1-3 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

So as you can see, there's a "call back" to both the 144,000 AND the 4 angels. 7/14(7x2)/144(72x2). This is not an accident or coincidence.

I say on an encoded level its about perfect fifths and harmonics, and IN THE TEXT it's saying " The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders "
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Aspects of Stupa Symbolism

Some Aspects of Stupa Symbolism

by Lama Anagarika Govinda

The universality of the principal of enlightenment (bodhi) and the boundlessness of the Enlightened One who has surpassed the limits of individuality, who is deep and immeasurable like the ocean - this universality is expressed in the cosmic symbolism of the stupa. It's main element, the cuploa, in fact, imitates the infinite dome of the all embracing sky which includes both, destruction and creation ,death and rebirth.  The early Buddhists expressed these prinicipals by comparing the cupola of the stupa to the water bubble and the egg (anda) as the symbol of latent creative power (as such anda was also a synonym for the universe in the oldest indian mythology), while the kiosk or altar-like (harmika) structure which rose on the summit of the cupola, symbolised the sanctuary enthroned above the world, beyond death and rebirth. Nepalese stupas, which in many respects have preserved archaic features, decorate the harmika with painted human eyes, thus suggesting a human figure in the posture of meditation hidden in the stupa: the crossed leg in the base, body up to the shoulders in the hemisphere, the head in the harmika. This also corresponds to the psycho-physiological doctrine of the cakras or centres of psychic force, which are located one above the other in the human body and through which consciousness deveolps in ascending order: from the experience of material sense-objects through that of the immaterial worlds of pure mental objects, up to the supramundane consciousness of enlightenment which has its base in the crown chakra of the head. The latter would correspond to the harmika.

The symbolism proceeds in two lines, the cosmic and the psychic; they find their synthesis in the psycho-cosmic image of Man, in which the physical elements and laws of nature and their spiritual counterparts, the different world palnes and their corresponding stages of consciousness (loka, and lokiya cittani) as well as that what transcends them (lokut-tara-cittam) have their place...

The altar-shaped harmika on the summit of the cuploa was crowned by one or more honorific umbrellas of stone and served, in accordance with its symbolical importance, as a receptacle of relics; in pre-Buddhistic times these were buried most probably in or under the massive and more or less flattened stone hemisphere or its terrace-like base if such a one existed. The resemblance of the harmika to a sacrificial altar is perhaps not unintentional, because the Holy One, instead of sacrificing other beings, sacrifices himself to the world. As the Buddha teaches: There is only one sacrifice which is of real value, the sacrifice of our own desires, our own "self". The ultimate form of such a

sacrifice is that of a Bodhisattva who renounces even Nirvana until he has helped his fellow-beings to find the path of liberation. 

From the standpoint of the sacrificial altar also, the later idea, which compares the harmika with the element of fire, gets a new significance. Even the eyes on the harmika of Nepalese stupsa fit into this symbolism, because according to the Tantras, fire (agni) corresponds to the eye (faculty of vision, also of inner vision).

The stupas were surrounded by great stone fences (vedika) originally made of wood, as their architectural character indicates, seperating the sacred place from the profane world.  Most of them were decorated with auspicious signs in order to ward off evil influences and to prepare the minds of the worshippers before entering the sanctuary. Four beautifully carved gates, the climax of the decorations of the fence, opened towards the four quarters of the world, emphasizing the universal spirit of the Buddha Dharma, which invites all beings with the call: "Come and see!~ The inner space, between the fence and stupa, and the circular terrace at the basis of the cupola were used as pradaksina patha for ritualistic circumambulation in the direction of the sun's course. The orientation of the gates equally corresponds to the sun's course, to sunrise, zenith, sunset, and nadir. As the sun illuminates the physical world, so does the Buddha illuminate the spiritual world. The eastern torana represents his birth, the southern his enlightenment, the western his "setting in motion the wheel of the Law", or the proclamation of his doctrine, and the northern his final liberation.

The entrances were buiit in such a way that they appear in the ground plan as the four arms of a svastika, which has its centre in the relic shrine on the top of the hemisphere in other words: in place of the comsic centre, which according to ancient Indian ideas, was mount Meru with the tree of divine life and of knowledge (in Buddhism the Bodhi tree), there stood the Buddha, the Fully Enlightened One, who realized that knowledge in his own life...

It is interesting to see how closely the architectural development follows the spiritual growth of the Buddha Dharma. ... The original elements of the stupa speak the same language if we analyse them from the psychological point of view. The ground-plan and starting from the principle of the stupa is the cricle, the symbol of concentration.  As a three-dimensional form the stupa is essentially a hemisphere, it represents the principle of concentration in a higher dimension which does not only  co-ordinate the forces of one plane butcreates an equilibrium of all the forces concerned, a complete relaxation of tension, the harmony of coming to rest within oneself. Every point of the surface is equally related to the centre, get its meaning and its importance from there, immune against external influences or disturbances, combining concentration and restfulness.

The symbolical meaning of the different parts of the stupa  according to the description of the Tibetan Tanjur is as follows:

I. The first step of the 4 sided basal structure, i.e. the foundation of the whole building corresponds to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, namely:

1.  mindfulness as regards the body
2.  mindfulness as regards sensation
3.  mindfulness as regards the mind
4.  mindfulness as regards phenomena.

II. The second step of the 4-sided... corresponds to the Four Efforts

1. effort to destroy evil which has arisen
2. effort to prevent the evil which has not yet arisen
3. effort to produce the good which has not yet arisen
4. effort to cultivate the good that has arisen

III. The third step corresponds to the Four Psychic Powers 

1. the desire to act
2. energy
3. thought
4. investigation

IV. The fourth step corresponds to the Five Faculties

1. faculty of faith
2. faculty of energy
3. faculty of mindfulness
4. faculty of concentration

V. The circular basis of the cupola corresponds to the Five Forces, which are of the same kind as the Faculties, faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and reason.  the 2 groups represent the passive and the active side of the same properties.

VI. The cupola represents the Seven Factors of Enlightenment

mindfulness

1. discerning the truth
2. energy
3. rapture
4. serenity
5. concentration
6. equanimity

VII. The harmika corresponds to the Eightfold Path

1. Right views
2. Right aspirations
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right effort
8. Right concentration

VIII. The stem of the tree of life corresponds to the Tenfold Knowledge

1. knowledge of the Law
2. knowledge of other persons' thoughts
3. knowledge of relations
4. empirical knowledge
5. knowledge of suffering
6. knowledge of the cause of suffering
7. knowledge of the annihilation of suffering
8. knowledge of the way that leads to the annihilation of suffering
9. knowledge of the things connceted to despair
10. knowledge of the non-production of things.

IX. The thirteen discs or layers of the tree of life which correspond to the mystical powers of the Buddha. The 13 mystical powers:

1. the knowledge of the places which are suitable for the preaching and the activity of the Buddha
2. the knowledge of the ripening of the different kinds of karma.
3. the knowledge of all the meditations, liberations, ecstasies, and unions with higher spheres
4. the knowledge of the superior and inferior faculties
5. the knowledge of the different inclinations of other beings
6. the knowledge of the different spheres of existence
7. the knowledge of those ways which lead to any desired end
8. the knowledge and recollection of former existences
9. the knowledge of the time of death and of rebirth
10. the destruction of evil forces;
11. (11-13) the three foundations of the particular mindfulness of the Buddhas

10 Powers according to Anguttara-Nikaya

1. perceives what is possible as possible, what is impossible as impossible
2. perceives the results of actions done in the past, present and the future according to circumstances and causes
3. perceives every result
4. perceives world with different elements
5. perceives inclinations of other beings
6. perceives the superior and inferior faculties of other beings
7. perceives the purity or impurity of the states of trance and of liberation, of concentration and its attainments
8. remembers innumerable former existences
9. perceives with the celestial eye, the purified, the supra-human how the beings reappear according to their deeds
10. by conquering his passions he has attained, perceived, and realized by himself the passionless liberation of heart, mind, etc.

At first sight this scholastic symbolism will appear rather arbitrary, but if we examine it more carefully we find that it is consistent with the constructive principles of the stupa and their ideology. It represents the way to enlightenment, revealing the psychological structure of the Buddha-Dharma and the qualities of the Enlightened One in whom the Dharma is realized.  The stupa, accordingly, is as much a memorial for the Buddhas and saints of the past as a guide to the enlightenment of every individual and a pledge for the Buddhas to come.