Gate 21, known as Biting Through and the Gate of Control, is a biological mechanism located in the Heart Center within the Tribal (Ego/Will) Circuit. Its primary purpose is to regulate, manage, and protect the material resources of the community to ensure collective survival. As a Manifesting Gate, it provides the willpower necessary to oversee day-to-day operations, logistics, and boundaries, ensuring that tribal agreements are upheld so the group can thrive and rest.
The 21st gate is a powerful control gate tied to the ego, essential for ensuring the needs of the community are met, such as food, shelter, and leisure. It serves to protect and organize society, but can also create conflict due to its intense need for control. This gate justifiably uses power to overcome persistent interference, but it requires recognition and trust to operate effectively. Its influence varies depending on one’s design – whether a projector, generator, or manifestor – highlighting the complexity of how control should be exercised. The 21’s power must be respected for it to serve the community properly.
This gate governs the exercise of control over material systems, assets, money, territory, and operations on behalf of the tribe. It does not create resources or gather people; instead, it manages and regulates what already exists.
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The Quarter of Initiation is the first quadrant of the Mandala, characterized by the theme of purpose fulfilled through the Mind. Mystically known as “The Witness Returns,” this quarter represents the Personality crystal returning to the physical plane to bring renewal to the evolution of consciousness. The primary mechanical functions within this quadrant involve thinking, educating, conceptualizing, and explaining what it means to be alive in form.
This quarter is designed to facilitate the fine-tuning of the mind so that it may eventually surrender its decision-making authority to the directives of the body. It contains nearly all the gates of the Solar Plexus Center, which governs relational intelligence and emerging spirit awareness. Furthermore, the Channel of Initiation (25–51) is located here, providing the mechanical force required to disrupt stagnation and catalyze spiritual transformation.
A Life Work situated in this quarter suggests that your unique contribution is rooted in mental processing and the sharing of insights. This role involves translating individual or collective patterns into formulas, ideas, and stories that help humanity understand its own existence.
An example of this operation is seen in Gate 13 (The Listener), which initiates the quarter by witnessing and collecting the secrets and experiences of others. Another example is Gate 11 (Ideas), which provides the conceptual frameworks and beliefs that stimulate the collective mind. Ultimately, the Quarter of Initiation ensures that mutation and discovery are conceptualized and communicated before they move into the physical structures of the Quarter of Civilization.
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✧ The Book of Changes ✧
“Born Alan (Robert) Krakower in Montreal, Canada April 9, 1948. He disappeared in 1983 and re-emerged as Ra on the Island of Ibiza and began a process of mystical deconstruction climaxing with his encounter with the “Voice.” Titled ‘Uru Hu’ by the “Voice,” Ra’s encounter and education lasted from January 3-11, 1987.”
