Long Description:

MAN signifies, in the first place, Man (or Human Being), but it also signifies the HAND from the Latin ‘Manus’.

In the United States we find many streets with the name of “Main-road” or “Main-street”  and we must remember ‘Manas’ or ‘Mens’ (soul).

The word “Manager” ) so usual among English speakers and ‘Mandate’, ‘Command’ and, above all the God ‘MANUS’ that we find always adorned with this symbol. It is one of the most important Runes and by its very form invites us to constant prayer.

It is the man who implores on high, who implores the Great All.

MANEMANU are also anagrams of the Mantrams AMEN and AUM, which are the ones that must constitute our prayers and must always express: “I AM OF DIVINE ORIGIN”.

Remember that greatly misunderstood and interpreted phrase “I AM AS MUCH AS YOU ARE” that does not signify establishing a comparison between two persons.

That phrase is symbolic. It means, “I AS A SMALL MICROCOSMOS, AM SO MUCH LIKE YOU, IMMENSE MACROCOSMOS.”

The man who is conscious of his value, must never go about with a lowered head in an attitude of humiliation, but must instantly possess the idea that he is REAL LIFE, flooded with ardor, with fire, with accumulated potency.

Who dominates and who is not dominated.

In whom reason vibrates and this is, in him, like an overwhelming force and that, while listening, is firmly fixed to the ground,

with the forehead up, and with all the right of his personality and the full weight of his spiritual energy.

For this reason we have the articles EL, LA or LAF.

LAF has the significance of God locked up in us or imprisoned who, with the absolute right to Light and Liberty, cries and appeals to Heaven. All of this is locked up in these two Runes.

“OM”, as a monosyllable, in Hebrew, is translated as ’that which is True’, ’that which is Vital’, ’that which is Legitimate’, and, in that sense, we must possess the biblical phrase that is spiritually found on the Banner of the Gnostics: “I AM THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE!!! But I, I MYSELF, without complaining to anyone and without asking for anything4 external.

Without my prayer going outside, but doing it within. Is there anything outside that is not inside me?

I must demand a sign, as certain religions do, which I can demand it of myself wherein everything is real and nothing exists without symbolic nuance.”

We must ensure ourselves that: “I AM THE LIGHT, I AM GOD, since that divine spark which is God, dwells and resides within me and the purpose of my life is to liberate it, achieving it, recognizing it within myself in order to make it objective before eyes….”

And we must continue: “I am health, I am a hand of the Great All through which it executes its will and I, as living antenna,

must gather the divine forces of the Cosmos without twisting its course nor adulterating its Law.”

The corresponding practice is to be done in the morning facing towards the Sun, at the moment it ascends in the East, in that attitude of raised hands as expressed by the Rune and imploring it for help and support.

This should always be done on the 27th of every month from 3:30 to 4:00 in GMT.

One should never implore while employing this prayer uselessly in this sense and in such attitude. Observe also [that] in the Catholic Church there are faithful who pray and implore in the same form with open and pleading arms.

The Christ by the great sculptor Thorwaldsen  is conceived adopting the same norm.

In many Shields, that same MAN Rune represents the Tree of Life and we also observe that in ancient documents there is the Tree of Paradise with only three branches and a serpent coiled around it that is to say THE SERPENT, symbol of Life, coiled around the TREE of the CROSS, but it is a Cross, not as we know it in Christianity, in which the transverse beam is like an obstacle that interrupts the current, but with raised arms leaving that expedient current so that it can ascend.

If we start with the HAGAL Rune which represents the whole Cosmos,  we get two Runes.

One, arms raised upwards, being the MAN Run] and the other, arms down being the IR or YR Rune.

The first represents the God-Man, the Spiritual-Man who looks up.

The second is the physical-Man, the human-Man who feels the call of the ground.

Unite both concepts, that is, God with Man and we will have the meaning of those Runes.

They are also a symbol of Man and Woman when they form that All which forms Nature

We must also UNITE, balance, as indicated by this Rune, the KNOWING of the brain with the FEELING of the heart.

They are the two poles that, together, will make the spark of that mysterious Light that is in us go out and of which we are, as a Spanish occultist, truly producers. The value of the Rune is 15. If we add both numerals together, it gives us 6, that is, Sex.

From this word is composed the Sex which, kabalistically, is Kaun (the sixth Rune). It is the Rune of the Sexual Organs or of Sex, which we already know and has a single raised arm representing sex in the material sense.

In this other Rune the two arms rise in order to determine that LOVE, Divine Sex, is our own transmuted substance.

The disciple should not expect to be told everything, but one should look for words that begin with MAN, MANO and see how in the

beginning of human language that Rune had its importance.

For the operations of Runic Magic, of which we shall speak later, all these forces which we have explained must have felt in themselves. No operation of white Magic can be done without raising the arms, even if it is mentally, to the Great All, thinking that everything has a trunk, a base, and in doing so we indicate that everything is a TREE, the tree of Humanity, the tree of Life.