| PROGRAMMING PARTNER: 16TH GENE KEY | PHYSIOLOGY: SACRAL PLEXUS |
| CODON RING: THE RING OF LIGHT | AMINO ACID: THREONINE |
| (5, 9, 11, 26) |
In its original hexagram form in the Chinese I Ching, the 9th Gene Key has a rather unusual and cryptic name, which is commonly translated as The Taming Power of the Small. If you are familiar with the I Ching, you might recall another hexagram, the 26th hexagram, whose name is The Taming Power of the Great. Evidently there is a strong bond within these two archetypes and their Gene Keys. We can see that genetically they are indeed part of the same chemical Codon Ring and its amino acid threonine, which we will discuss later. As is often the case with these old Chinese names, they contain many layers of truth and possibility. In the case of the 9th Shadow, the Taming Power of the Small refers to the human tendency to become submerged in unnecessary and irrelevant details. Most human beings live lives where they simply get by, lives in which they become victims of all the details around them. At the higher frequencies, you tame the small by applying your energy only to that which serves your higher purpose. At the Shadow frequency however, the details tame you, sapping your life force, robbing you of your enthusiasm (the 16th Gift and programming partner of the 9th Gene Key) and eventually pulling you into the common human state of inertia and indifference (the 16th Shadow).
The Chinese sage Lao Tzu uttered the famous statement “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step,” although a more accurate translation might be The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet. This piece of timeless wisdom concerns focusing on what lies right in front of you rather than concerning yourself with where the future might or might not take you. The 9th Shadow is about where you place that focus — and primarily through your daily activity rather than your mind. There is something very magical about this 9th Gene Key, as we shall see. It holds one of the greatest of all secrets — how to stop your mind from undermining your natural destiny. An image representing both the 9th Shadow and the 9th Gift is of a pathway made of individual stepping-stones. At the frequency of the 9th Shadow the stepping-stones go in a circle, so that as you look down at each step you fail to realise that you are simply following the same old footprints and your energy is going nowhere. This is the state of consciousness of the majority of human beings on our planet.
At the Gift level however, the stepping-stones go off into the distance and over the horizon. You do not know where they are going, but it doesn’t matter — you know they are leading you forward. This makes every step you take all-important as well as an adventure. This 9th Gene Key is about finding the right activity in your daily life. Every step must lead you in the direction of your dream, whatever that may be. Included within this path are the many, many small acts we take on the mundane plane — eating, washing, shopping, cooking, etc. Because all the steps, even the mundane daily chores, lead you in the direction of your dream, it is impossible for them to be unfulfilling. If your activity leaves you cold or bored, it does not necessarily mean it is the wrong activity. It probably means that you have lost contact with your greater dream — you have allowed the small to tame you. Every time you allow life to leave you bored or indifferent or you feel this lack of energy and inertia, it is up to you and you alone to reconnect with your dream.
Without a sense of higher purpose, human beings move in circles creating energy fields that prevent abundance. Even worse, the inertia of the 9th Shadow feeds off the victim mind, which also goes round and round in its patterns of either blaming or worrying. In our hearts however, all human beings are natural rebels. We are wild creatures. We are not here on earth to have our dreams tamed, clipped or domesticated. We are here to make magic happen and we cannot do that unless our every waking moment is directed and focused towards a single over-reaching vision or ideal. The 9th Shadow sucks all the hope and enthusiasm out of you when you do not see immediate results and improvement in your situation. It takes you away from the focus and fulfilment of the moment and disturbs your concentration and patience. One of the modern expressions of this 9th Shadow is our addiction to trivia — details and trappings extraneous and unnecessary to our lives. Unless it is either beautiful or practical, it can safely be classified as trivia.
The 9th Shadow draws your energy away from that which truly matters to you, which is beauty.
The energy field around this 9th Shadow and its programming partner the 16th Shadow of Indifference is a very intense cloud under which many humans are stuck. Together these two Gene Keys are a huge drain on your physical body. Lack of enthusiasm leads to lack of energy and vice versa. You may even believe that you are taking steps to change when in fact all you are doing is going around in circles, still focused on details that are essentially irrelevant. The only way out of this field of inertia is to punch through it with one huge act of will. This first step out of the victim frequency resets your course onto a path that leads ahead rather than around. This 9th Shadow deeply affects the energy systems within the body, closing them down to higher voltages and cosmic high frequency energies. It also has an adverse jamming effect on your inner directional guidance system — your heart. If your heart is not behind your every act, not only do you choose an inappropriate course in life, but you also continually wear down your health.
In summary then, if your life force seems low or lacking in energy and you are finding it hard to get enthused about your life, the answer may well lie in the 9th Shadow. You are either too focused on the future instead of giving your full attention to whatever is right in front of you, or there is no sense of overall purpose moving beneath your daily acts and activities. Without this sense of inner focus, a great deal of your energy goes into complaining, whether vocally or mentally. All this energy needs to find a higher purpose — something it can serve that takes you beyond the mundane world and all its details. Most human beings are unaware of how much energy they are sitting on inside their own bodies. There truly is nothing in life you cannot accomplish if you put your heart squarely behind it.
There is an inner reluctance in the repressed side of this 9th Shadow. It manifests as our seeming inability to do anything about our situation despite the fact that we understand it and even see our way out. The reluctance to move out of one’s patterns is not a conscious choice but an inner dynamic where all one’s life force remains frozen. This reluctance is essentially a paralysis of our will, brought about by following familiar, repetitive patterns that do not serve us. To break out of our inner reluctance is to leave our safety zone and move directly into our fears. It can be frustrating to onlookers that these people are unable to break their patterns, but it is just as frustrating for those in the grip of such deep-seated fear. Ultimately, it comes down to the power of the human will to either break through or fall into a continual and miserable decline.
The reactive nature of the 9th Shadow involves a totally different kind of inertia. These people can be highly restless and fidgety, as though nothing inside them can sit still. Their tactic is diversion, and they unconsciously seek any stimulus to draw some of their energy and fury out of their body. Naturally, such people cannot sustain this escapist pattern indefinitely and it takes an enormous toll on their health and often their finances. These people cannot find a fixed pattern in life at all. If they were to do so, all their rage would explode out of them. This makes it impossible for them to maintain serious commitments for any length of time. Although their lives are not inert in the strict sense of the word, they are inert in terms of fulfilment because they can simply never rest or relax.
The 9th Gift fuels all determination. The Gift of Determination is built upon the rock of the very smallest acts. The controversial English magician Aleister Crowley once stated a deep truth of great relevance to this Gift: “Every intentional act is a magical act.” Even the smallest action has a spin-off effect that travels out into the universe. Actions made out of resentment or fear reinforce the Shadow frequency both in the world and in the individual. Indifferent acts reinforce indifference, whereas acts done in joy or service create more joy. Wherever we look into the matrix of this 9th Gene Key, it keeps pointing to the same truth — that a person without an ideal burning inside them is essentially destined to remain a follower of the crowd. However, it is important to distinguish that this is not a Gift of dreaming but of sustained activity and work towards a single powerful goal.
The power of the 9th Gift is the power of repetition. This gift creates a groove and once that groove is dug, all energy in your life will tend to follow the same pattern. This explains why the Gift of Determination is so powerful. It also explains why it is so hard to escape the inertia of the 9th Shadow at its lower frequency. When you break out of the lower frequency and connect with your vision or ideal as a feeling and a knowing deep inside, you have truly begun the journey of a thousand steps. Every single step you take from that moment on — which means all acts, no matter how inconsequential they may seem — lead in the direction of that core vision. As you continue in the direction of your heart, you begin to carve for yourself a powerful groove that becomes easier and easier to follow and is what the world knows as determination. This changes the whole shape of your life, as finally you will begin to feel the inner strength that comes from following your life purpose.
The strange thing about the Gift of Determination is that the more determined you become the less energy and willpower you have to use. This is contrary to the common view of determination, which is generally held to be a great battle or struggle. However, the secret of determination is about momentum. All those little acts done with heart begin to build up an inner momentum that eventually becomes unstoppable. The force of the entire universe begins to gather behind such a person. It is only at the beginning that you have to use great force because those first few steps out of the Shadow frequency take such enormous strength of will and courage. Thus the 9th Gift reveals one of the great secrets of the Gift frequency — the more you tread the path of heart the easier it gets. Instead of being tamed by life, you forge your own direction and destiny through taming the smallest and most inconsequential acts in your life.
The 9th Gift has an important connection to the power of magnetism. All of life is magnetic, and this Gift employs the use of magnetism through aligning itself with true north — the inner direction and rhythm sought by the universe as a whole. This is the groove we are speaking of — it is about moving down the force-lines of the universal energy grid instead of moving across or against them. Determination in this sense reveals another meaning. Your true course in life is already predetermined and thus all you have to do is find it and follow it. As was mentioned at the Shadow frequency, one of the most magical aspects of this 9th Gift is the effect it has on your mind. Once you have centered yourself in the groove and your course begins to feel more and more certain, your mind finally stops undermining you. The naturally flowing currents within your body begin to come into a universal harmony, and as they do so, your brainwave cycles slow down and you enter a higher consciousness field. It is one of the paradoxes of the Gene Keys that the higher your spiritual frequency rises, the lower your brainwave frequency falls.
These radical shifts in your mental functioning further serve to streamline the course of your life. With the mind operating at deeper levels of consciousness, you begin to let go of your mental constructs — your opinions, your fears, your beliefs and even eventually your hopes. Your mind begins to submerge itself in a wider and more collective awareness. Not only does it undermine you less and less, but it also confirms that your direction is logically valid. At the height of the Gift frequency as it begins to prepare for the leap into the siddhic consciousness, you become aware of the vast power that can move through the very smallest of things. As your vision of reality expands to contain universes, you realise how small you really are. At the same time you get to see how enormous your contribution to the whole is when you truly take the plunge and listen to your heart.
The world around us is filled with examples of the power that comes from taming the small. When humanity managed to tame the power of the atom — the basic magnetic unit of matter — we unlocked its tremendous energy and demonstrated a great universal law — the smaller something becomes, the more condensed is the universal energy within it. This law can be applied to your individual life as we learned through the 9th Gift. There is one final surprise lying in wait for us within this 9th Gene Key and it is found in its ultimate expression as the Siddhi of Invincibility. The 9th Siddhi is about the power of the infinitesimal — the infinitely small. The infinitesimal is also the paradoxical — if one goes on dividing a piece of string in half, one could theoretically go on forever. Thus the infinitesimal becomes the boundless and inner space leads to outer space.
At the highest level of consciousness, levels themselves disappear. Outer space becomes inner space, time becomes infinite yet absolutely present, and all boundaries are absorbed by consciousness itself. Now the moment something loses all boundaries, it becomes two contrary things — it becomes simultaneously defenceless and invincible. Invincibility can therefore be defined as merging your individual awareness back into the consciousness of the universe. To be invincible is to surrender to all possible foes by dissolving your entire reality into them. This is why these two closely named Siddhis, the 9th — the Taming Power of the Small, and the 26th — the Taming Power of the Great, are so intimately interconnected. The 9th represents Invincibility and the 26th represents Invisibility. To be invincible is also to be invisible, and vice versa. Invincibility means to dissolve into the will of the universe, and it is a Siddhi that has been deified in many different cultures. In Christianity for example, the archangel Michael holds the archetype of invincibility.
The only force in the universe that is truly invincible is love. Love knows only giving, so it creates a vacuum which in turn continually floods with more love. It is impossible to fight against such a force since it renders all other energies defunct by returning them to their source. When a human being attains this Siddhi, their life becomes an expression of the invincible power of such love. These people have discovered that the entire universe exists in microcosmic form within the human body, and they may become teachers of this truth. In this respect they can be masters of techniques wherein the macrocosmic can be mapped onto the microcosmic. Such people become the focal point for an intense frequency of Divine light with a very specialised task to fulfil on earth. The Taming Power of the Small is like a laser that can pinpoint a very specific aspect of life, bringing enormous power to bear on that area. An ordinary person may find the aura of such a person almost unbearable, since it spotlights those aspects of your shadow nature that you most fear. If you are blessed to be karmically tied to such a being, it is highly likely that full realisation will occur within your lifetime.
It is fascinating to see how the higher programming matrix within our DNA is coded to awaken specific forces within us at specific times in our evolution. The 9th Siddhi belongs to a family of Siddhis that are interlinked through the human genetic structure by the amino acid known as threonine. Threonine brings together the 5th, 9th, 11th and 26th Siddhis, which collectively unlock two very powerful universal themes of humanity’s higher nature — time and light. Known as The Ring of Light, these four themes — Invincibility, Timelessness, Light and Invisibility — form a kind of cross-coding message that is designed to operate across entire gene pools. There will come a time when humanity will awaken very quickly to its highest genetic frequency through the wavelengths of light carried by the aura. The end of our mental experience of time will therefore be triggered by human auras interacting with each other. In this respect, humanity will only become invincible when it realises its collective nature, at which point the individual becomes invisible in the sense of being completely porous to the indwelling group awareness.
What the 9th Siddhi teaches us today is that every act you make is of vast importance to the whole of evolution. If your life takes on a cosmic focus, then life itself will intensify within you, moving you naturally into a far more co-operative pattern with your environment and with others. Every intentional act is a magical act, setting in motion either a force of creativity or a force of decay. Whenever you stand at the beginning of a journey, it is the first step that sets the tone for the entire journey and the next few steps that begin to create the groove. After even a relatively few steps then, it becomes very difficult to change your direction since that involves wrenching yourself out of your existing groove and creating a new one. Therefore whenever you reach a natural beginning — of a new cycle, a new relationship, a new home, even a new year — you would do well to remember this truth: those first few steps are critical to your evolution in the time ahead. You must capture the energy of your dream and hold onto it deep inside, because it is that dream that will act as the lens to focus the power of magic and manifestation in your life.