Great White Brothers @ 187knowledge attained by study or during philosophical education in pre-
vious incarnations. More important, Hodson realized that if a person
had taken the third initiation in a former life or lives and had advanced
toward the fourth, then in his current life he was able to move faster,
and eventually the necessity for ritual itself would be outgrown.
Polidorus explaiiied that at physical initiation the powers of past
personalities are recommunicated to the present one, that the old selves
have not vanished but are indelibly imprinted on the Akashic Record,
where they can be studied. Errors cannot be erased but can be karmi-
cally balanced.
Polidorus then gave Hodson instructions and meditations to prac-
tice steadily and daily for the purpose of arousing and drawing up the
three currents of kundalini. Some time earlier, with Master Rakoczy at
his temple, Hodson said he realized cosmic fohat (or kundalini) to be
the source of all power."It is a white, cold fire which plays like contin-
uous lighting in and through and around those who can tap and wield
its potency."
As a parting shot, Polidorus told Hodson his reintroduction to the
mystery tradition had been no accident but was a deliberate intrusion
into his life by the brotherhood, even including the use of his dog,
Peter, with the first showing of fairies.To which Hodson added, "The
phenomena of the successful photography of Nature Spirits by two
young girls in Yorkshire, England, early in the 1920s-with which I
was closely associated-may be regarded as an Adept-inspired action
designed to draw attention to the existence of Nature Spirits and to
the occult doctrine of the existence and functions of the Angelic
Hierarchies."
In the early morning of January 23, 1983, Hodson died peacefully
in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of ninety-six, having given his
last public lecture at the HPB Lodge of the 1ocalTheosophical Society
on the subject "Kundalini-Shakti; Its Use in Occult Research."