Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 76 of 100 · Part V

Part V · The one who lives in you

Standing as a sign: Fa at sunrise

The old runes are signs made with the body. The first of them, Fa, greets the rising sun and wakes you for the day.

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The rune Fa: both arms raised toward the sun, the left a little higher, palms open.

This is the third practice of this part. It comes from an old teaching on the runes, the signs of the ancient North. In the tradition each rune is a posture of the body, joined to a prayer and a sound.

Fa is the first. It turns the first minutes of the day into something awake: body, breath, prayer and attention, all at once.

The sun gives life to everything on earth. In the tradition it is also a symbol of the Christ of page 67: the divine light that can be born in anyone. Standing before it with open hands, you ask for strength and for your consciousness to wake.

It is also a breathing practice, and a way to turn the creative energy of Part III into wakefulness instead of spending it.

Do it outside if you can, facing the sun. If the morning is cloudy, face where the sun is. If your arms tire, lower them between rounds. That is part of the practice.

The free course Runology, in My Courses, teaches all fifteen runes in the same plain way, one page each.

Fa · practice fifteen

  1. Stand facing the rising sun, outside if you can, heels together. Pray in your own words for strength and to wake up.
  2. Then say the rune’s prayer: Marvelous force of love, revive my sacred fires, so that my consciousness will awaken.
  3. Raise both arms toward the sun, the left a little higher than the right, palms open to the light.
  4. Breathe in slowly through the nose, feeling the light enter your hands and fill your whole body.
  5. Breathe out through the mouth, singing a long FA. Breathe in, then sing FE on the next breath out, then FI, FO and FU, one on each breath. Lower your arms. That is one round. Do three or seven rounds.

Face the sun, but never look into it. Keep your eyes soft and lowered, or closed.

Words on this page

Rune
An ancient sign of the North; in the tradition, a posture of the body joined to a prayer and a sound.

In the old words

“This is the sacred posture of the Rune FAH.”

Magic of the RunesSamael Aun Weor
On the next pageThe tradition kept another set of signs: twenty-two cards.77. Twenty-two steps on one road