RUNE Hagal (Krumm-Heller)
Number: 7
Astrological Correspondence: Sagittarius
Color: Purple, Blue, Red
Stone: Blue Sapphire
Symbolism: Victory, Transmuting
Meditation:
When the Mayans were asked the name of their god, they answered that God has no name and that it is only an aspiration, breath, and in order to express it the inhaled while pronouncing an aspirated “H”. “H” is therefore the beginning of the logos of all Runes and of all words.
HAGAL is the principle of Life, the Solar Force, the Divine Fire that the ancients venerated and that was used in antiquity in order to demonstrate its effectiveness.
The HAGAL Rune contains all the Runes, therefore it contains, in itself, the key of triumph. The students of the Runes should
do all things possessed by a religious feeling, that is, seeking the synthesis of everything through the deep state of consciousness with which we work.
The HAGAL Rune leads to the conscious realization of the transubstantiation.
Short Practice Description:
We begin through sight, in order to draw the strength of this great Rune. Let us concentrate our thoughts on the Great All, on the Invisible World, with all its inhabitants, which the Nordics call “Valkyries” and the Elementals. We call them to our aid and with this we enter into the terrain of Practical Magic. We cannot live without these beings.
Let’s make the Rune on white paper and while looking at it, we put the arms up and out on the sides of the body, palms down, doing half of the HAGAL Rune (Rune Man).
Then, we lower our arms and do the other half (Rune YR). Finally, we lower the arms, afterwards, to the sides of the body into the passive IS Rune position and change the sight to one meter above the drawing that we were looking at, and we will see there the image inverted. It is an optical effect, but for the moment it will help us in later exercises.
Long Description:
The students of the Runes must, therefore, do all things possessed with a religious feeling. We are trustees of all the goods of the earth, but we are not their owners. They are our Gods, that is to say, those omnipotent universal forces that we can surely personify.
A disciple had to ask us one day, “Do you believe in a Personal God?” . “To a certain extent”, we responded. But he was confused by our answers, and protested its ambiguity, demanding a YES or a NO, to which we answered: “YES and NO”.
THE FORCES ARE IMPERSONAL and so is the Christic substance, but it takes a bodily form in us and for this reason we continued saying to the Disciple: “I believe that in you [there] is a Personal God enclosed in a physical body.”
“Liberate me from it!” the Disciple replied to us.
We will, of course, answer him, but not by killing him, but by gradually reducing his strength/force and giving him more Strength/Force, which seemed even more paradoxical. And, in effect, it is. By exercising ourselves in runes (which may well be called our exercises), the body increases in Physical Strength/Force, but evidently loses in spiritual agility and this gives power in order to make God stronger in ourselves.
Let us begin this exercise by looking to extract the forces from this great Rune. Let us concentrate our thoughts on the Great All, on the Invisible World, with all its inhabitants, which the Nordics call “Valkyries” and our Elementals (Sylphides, gnomes, salamanders, undines), calling them to our aid and with this we enter into the terrain of Practical Magic.
We cannot live without those beings. Let’s make the Rune of them on a white paper like this: * and let’s look at it for some time and then look up one meter higher and there we will see the inverted image.
This is an optical effect but, for the moment, it will help us in later exercises.