• Inner Wheel - Twelve Monthly Cycles
  • Named after the various jewels
  • Katsupari Monastery model
• Middle Wheel - Ecueques or Triad
  • Followed the twelve-month period/cycle
  • Called the Ecueques or Triad
  • Theory that man changes somewhat in nature & bodily chemistry every 3 years
  • Making 36 periods within this cycle made of various metals & their influences on man
  • It is the 3 into 3, into 3, or better known as the Triad
    • In which the metals rule over the jewels of the thirty day periods (months)
    • These 9 metals are Aluminum, Silver, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Mercury
    • These rule over the sequence of the three in three, in three
    • Known for life giving qualities of those living in the human consciousness state within the worlds of matter
• Outer Wheel - Twelve Years or Duodenary Cycle

The Middle Wheel of Ecueques or Triad

1. Metal 1 - Aluminum

   • Used so much as an amulet in the East,
     • With desire to promote one's welfare, good fortune and happiness with material things
   • This is a progressive period of life

2. Metal 2 - Silver

   • The period of quiet, moody times, mystical in its moonlike quality
   • Passive in nature, feminine and secretive
   • Amulets of it used for keeping and protection of secrets
   • A guard from the perils of wter
   • Attuned to sign of Niyamg, month of onyx
   • It is the metal of secret dreams and equally secret fears
     • Which brings it within the realm of moody attitudes
     • Which run from the highest to the lowest

3. Metal 3 - Copper

   • A metal much influenced by Garvata, month of the jade
   • Has the earth qualities of warmth and good food
   • The words 'glowing warmth' would fit its descriptive qualities very well
   • Copper bracelets or having a piece of copper on one's own person
     • Has always been a guard against arthritis and rheumatism
     • Both of which are aggravated by cold
   • All muscular discomforts caused by cold are also relieved by copper
   • Its vibrations so often counteract the effects of negative
     • Or depressive tensions set up by problems
     • Or lack of communication between people
   • The cheerful qualities of copper pans and pots in a kitchen
     • So many times help keep down tensions and troubles within a household

4. Metal 4 - Gold

   • A firey, dry metal; said to be the king of metals
   • The metal of kings for all rulers of nations have made gold a stanard of royalty
   • A heat intense metal, which symbolizes success in everything
   • A ruling metal of Kamitoc, month of the ruby
   • Allied to those of royalty, the theatre and business
   • It seems to have been and will always be the metal which lures
     • Those brave enough and strong enough to steal, murder or create wars over it

5. Metal 5 - Iron

   • A conductor of heat, but not the firey, glowing kind that gold possesses
   • Represents the terrible fury of battle, lust and gore
   • It is a vengeful weapon
   • The Hittites of the ancient world were the first to find that iron was useful for conquest
     • And set out to put all others in the Middle East under their power
   • The chains that hold man captive and are resistive to liberty are made of iron
     • Even when its uses are beneficial like instruments for heating
   • The glowing iron contains the fury of the inner furnace
     • There is a wall of glowing metal between the fire and the world

6. Metal 6 - Lead

   • It has always been a serious, somber metal with a heaviness
     • Which rather depressed those who had anything to do with it
   • However the heavy-spirited manner in which it is encased
     • Does not prevent it from being mystically endowed
   • It is used by the Germans who are not a light-hearted people anyway
     • To foretell the future on New Year's Day
     • This form of divination is called Blieigiessen
       • And is given in the following manner
       • A small amount of lead is dissolved in a spoon over a candle
       • And when it is liquid, it is dropped into a bowl of cold water
       • The shape that it forms is supposed to foretell the year ahead
         • For the person holding the spoon
       • The shape is interpreted as representative of the events of the year ahead
         • With the idea that the form points to some specific event
         • In the twelve months' period

7. Metal 7 - Tin

   • Somewhat associated with Hortar, the month of the pearl
   • Symbolic of good fortune and a metal of progress and development
   • On the psychic planes it is a metal which is moist and warm
     • And therefore an expanding force

8. Metal 8 - Zinc

   • A metal which is in harmony with Dzyani, the month of the agate, the days of friendship
   • It is a metal which attracts those who are rather dry-witted in a manner
     • And is a conductor of loyalty in the human nature
   • It is one which has been known for several thousand years, somewhat heavy in nature
     • Yet able to serve the purpose of being an all purpose metal
   • Known in ancient times and used by the Romans
   • It is greyish in color and used a great deal in the ancient and middle ages
     • For making of household wear, dishes and cups
   • Today it is one of the best alloys that we have
     • In the making of many differnt types of things
   • It is also connected with Ralot, the month ot the Sapphire
     • And has a deep mystical meaning for those interested in influences
       • That it may have on their life
     • It can be worn, as pure zinc, in an amulet
       • For warding off lung troubles and stomach upsets
       • The only place that it might be possible to get pure zinc amulets
         • Is through special shops which sell occult materials

9. Metal 9 - Mercury

   • It is the last of the three in three, in three metals
   • It is influenced by the month of Uturat, that of the bloodstone
   • Those who are most influenced by this metal
     • Find that it represents love and freedom in their lives
     • Yet they are of a fluid nature because of the aspects of the metal
   • It is a metallic element, yet it is liquid at ordinary temperatures
   • Because of its mobility and its color
     • it was first called quicksilver by the alchemists about the 6th century
   • It was known to the ancient Chinese and Hindus at least 2000 years BC
   • Also it was found in the tombs of the Egyptian rulers in 1500 BC
   • As stated those who are influenced by the metal
     • They are free in the ideas of love and freedom
     • But on the other hand these people usually have a mercurial disposition
     • They can run from hot to cold in their moods on an instant's notice
     • Friends are usually sensitive in their presence because of this quick change in disposition

The Ecueques, or the Triad

• Makes the mental change in man every three years
  • He becomes more alert in his thinking
  • Provided that he is unfolding spiritually according to the way of Eckankar
• Otherwise if a person is not unfolding in the right manner or going backwards
  • The Triad is likely to work in reverse
  • That is should the individual be idle in thought
    • Or shiftless in his mental processes
  • But once the individual turns to trying to improve himself mentally
    • There is little problem in his gaining in intellect
    • And understanding of all things through the mental senses