19/49, TRIBAL EATING, & THE TRANS-SPECIES CONNECTION
“GATE 19 — FLIRTING FOR THE RIGHT PRINCIPLES
So, the first thing to be clear about the 19-49, is that the 19 needs to have somebody in their life they can breathe with. Now, the 19 is 'flirting.' And the 19 is flirting for the right kind of 'principles' (Gate 49)
One of the things about that flirting is that, it has become a whole ritual for us, to try to get access to the breath, without having to make a commitment. Just sort of flirt with it, and check it out.
It's why human beings are so sensitive to aroma, and why you have a vast multi, multi, billion dollar industry in providing artificial scent. It's vast.
Remember, that the tribe is concerned with two basic things. Whether they can touch somebody, this is the emotional side. And whether they can smell somebody, this is the splenic side. Those two things are fundamental.
You can be a wonderful flirt at a distance, but if you get up real close, and you don't like their breath—and it doesn't mean just the smell. All of us, without recognizing it, are very, very conscious of how people are breathing, who are standing in front of us. All of us. And how easily we get into other people's breath trips, and start breathing like them.
THE SIX MYSTICAL PRESSURES OF GATE 19
The pressure in the 19th Gate is the pressure for six different, archetypal, mystical processes. Every pressure gate (in the Root Center), all nine of them, are very, very important, and can all be seen in the way in which they pressure fifty four different varieties of things for us to be doing in this life. They just do.
The 19th gate pressures us in many, many ways. If you're the first line, for example, it pressures you to be in awe of community, of the other, and of God. And that awe begins the moment the 19 can put a seed in the ground, watch it grow, and eat the fruit. That's awe. Wonder. Absolute wonder.
Not only is it provided, but one can collect it, store it, keep it, and not go hungry. We forget, most of us, in western society that ‘not go hungry’ is an incredibly important theme in the world. It is still a dominant theme for most of the world.
Most human beings spend their lives doing nothing else but making
sure that they have something to eat, and are in a horrendous dilemma if they don't. So, this 19 pressure is a pressure to have food resources available.
Now, all of these pressures that come out of the 19, they're just pressure. And they're not pressure to pressure a spontaneous awareness. They’re pressure to start a wave.
I have the 49, and when somebody hooks up my emotional system through the 19, they start a wave in me. In the moment that they turn on my Solar Plex, I'm starting off in a certain place. And as long as they’re in my aura, or as long as the transit’s in my aura, in that way, I'm going to go through its wave pattern.
GATE 49 IS THE MOST SAVAGE
Now, think about the 49th gate. The 49th gate is the most savage of all gates. This is the gate of revolution. This is where the principles are established that say, 'This is how we can accumulate enough food. This is how much we need, this is how much you get, and this is how much you don't.' In other words, the 49th gate is the gate of the sacrifice or the sacrificer.
You see, the 19 is very happy that there’s sheep in the field. The 49 has to kill it. And because the 49
does the killing, because it is its principle—and I know so many 49 butchers—because the 49 kills it, it’s the principle: the 49 decides who can eat of it. Who gets the leg, who gets to eat the entrails.
It is the gate of 'rejection' or 'acceptance.' And as such, in the sexual sense, it is a gate of 'marriage and divorce.'
So, you've got to be a good flirt. And the 49 goes through their wave. Now, think about the nature of the revolutionary when they’re down in their wave, and they don't wait to be clear. Think about the idea of sacrificing when you're down in your wave.
I know, I've sacrificed things very dear to me out of emotional conditioning. It is astonishing how cold the 49th gate can be in its rejection, and how warm it can be in its acceptance.
THE QUANTUM OF THE 19 AND THE 49
Now, when you bring the quantum of that together, what you have is a
projected field of "sensitivity.' These are very, very sensitive people. They are incredibly sensitive to what you say. Whether you say something nice about them or not, they are going to be sensitive to it. It doesn't matter. They're just incredibly sensitive.
They need touch, and they know things better through touching them than through seeing them. They're the kind of people that can
do very, very complex work without actually looking, because they can feel it all in their fingertips.
This is where you get the laying on of hands. This is some of the magic that is in the mystical of the 19-49, to be able to reject the demons in the body, or whatever you want to call it. Exorcisms. Through the touch.
The hand is a symbol of the tribe. The hand is very, very important to the tribe, which is why, in most primitive societies, one of the most powerful punishments was to cut off the hand. To be able to greet each other tribally, and make contract physically with each other.
TRIBAL EATING PROCESS
Now, the most important event in a 19-49's life is eating. It's better than screwing. It's better than making money. The tribe is at its most spiritual when it's eating.
You see, this is the first, real, religious ceremony. The food is given by forces far beyond the capacity of those who grow it to understand. And the sharing of the bounty, and the sharing of it together; and more important than that, if everybody eats at the same table, their shit smells the same. Well, it's true.
And the moment you have that, that’s the moment you accept somebody into your life. You know what it's like, that you have a lover and you end up living together. You both end up having to change your smells. You have to. You have to find a common aroma, and that aroma becomes you, it becomes your children, and you smell different than the people next door.
Never forget how important smell is for us. And by eating at the same
table, you are truly the same tribe. You're not one of them garlic eaters. We have so many pejoratives for what people eat—it’s incredible.
It’s very important to recognize the value of food in your mystical process, and one's relationship to food. The moment you have the 19-49, is the moment you have the ability to be able to act as a sacrificer, and as such, that’s the opening up of our whole spiritual process.
One thing is the bounty of the food that comes to us that we gather, and the other is the bounty of our own ability to control and to kill our food. Human beings are incredibly good at that.
THE TRANS-SPECIES CONNECTION
Isn't it ironic that in the trans-speciel connection between mammals and humans, that all mammals have the potential of the 19th gate, and therefore, can connect to the human 49. And you see, the animal in 'need' of food, the 19’s 'need,' can find a 'principle' in the 49 that allows it to have easy access to food.
After all, we feed our sheep, and our cows, and our chickens. They get what they need. They're not clear, particularly, about the bargain. But they get what they need. And then we kill them."
-Ra Uru Hu