Some of these images have been on the net for years. I cannot source the artist to give proper credit they are culled from public domain .If you click these thumbnails you will get a larger easier to see image;

This is a Tarot like image of Initiatic Magick
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The place of the 5th initiation as named by Alice Bailey is the first taken out of the body. It occurs in the superetheric plane over The King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid in Luxor, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/Laie_58.gif)

Which has an appearance like this;
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The 6th Initiation is taken in the same locale because it is also at the King;s Chamber but in a higher plane above it This is an artist's depiction of the Golden Chamber of Melchiezedek which is inside the Higher Planes version of the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramids ;
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This is an artistic depiction of the Ring Pass Not which like the silver cord is a subtle energy constraint which the mystic cannot project through without an increased vibration attained in a number of ways ie kundalini, angelic attunements,initiations in the higher planes,energy work and pathworking of the magician.
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Entering Shamballah is another threshold. The first time that the mystic arrives they are ushered to the Great Manse for the 7th Initiation in Shamballah where they will see Godhead in a form acceptable to them. It is a place to attain Henios that the consciousness interprets as it can. The building is temporally stable as are all constructs in the Higher Planes . It will appear the same to all who project there but the Pillar of Godhead will be interpreted according to the idiosyncrasies of that magician.
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The following images are mud maps that I have created to orient oneself in Shamballah which is a valley of temples that is temporally stable. Temples offer the mystic a place to meet cosmic teaching spirits, to take initiations, to receive attunements, and to attain esoteric wisdoms. The mystic can ask Metatron and Michael to guide their circle of magicians so that they can tour the realms together or they might project to Shamballah, alone. The temples will always be in the same place but new real estate will be added to adjoining areas with magician manifested ashrams and new temples and metaphysical colleges.
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Many humans project at night in dreamstate to Shamballah without fully conscious recall. Children to adults , live and deceased come to Shamballah to learn.There is a complex of schools connected by a circular railroad which brings dreamers to shamballah. Children around the world see the train in their bedroom and get on board like a Higher Planes Harry Potter Train but this was there generations before those books were written. I first saw it with recall in 1989.
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The River comes off of the ocean and biforcates to the right and left right away . The river runs on the surface and below. It is like a Tree of Life.

The River Below is the River of Death. To the left it becomes the River Styx and flows to three islands down a dark intimidating tunnel but Christ is met on the central island and various other teachers are met there , too.

To the right is a glorious looking Golden City but it is paradoxically a Hels realm . The mystic can enter but the spirits there are constrained by their greed. All Hels realms can be left behind when the spirit forgives self , is forgiven by others they have harmed.

Above ground the River flows to the left past the Wesak Valley on its right bank and on to what is called the Valley of Peace . There the mystic can meet with deceased spirits and enter the afterlife realms and meet alien sentient beings and learn about their worlds too. Further North the River bends round to the left to a canal which is the Alchemist's Garden.

Coming off the ocean and moving to the left side of the river one comes to the valley of temples. This image was made by me to depict the river valley temples . I used images of temples here on Earth and scaled them to make them sit side by side but there are so many more than these depicted. This is a very rough idea.
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Shamballah's colours are surreal . The place is jewel like and radiant. James Hurtak made a gorgeous film with a french graphic artist Jean-Luc Bozzoli;

http://www.gaiam.com/product/merkabah+voya...+a+star+seed.do
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482238/
The film is based on the Book of Enoch Keys of Knowledge by James Hurtak which has brilliant truths in it and some hard to digest or accept questionable material and some obvious crappucino too. It is a mixed bag.
http://www.merkabah.org/
Finally,a preview in a poor quality copy. The actual CD is only 20$ USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8e8-pw5Fc