We abuse the powerful knowledge the Gnostic Teachings have given us when we feel superior for having it and when we don't help ourselves and others with it.
To help ourselves means to become better human beings, ones that don't make themselves and others suffer.
End (5119).
This post is a series of notes for a presentation on the working practically with virtues.
Each virtue does something and gives us something. Each virtue has a cause and effect. Love gives warmth and joy, wisdom - illumination, faith - strength and truth - freedom.
According to what we yearn for (effect) we choose the virtue (cause) to produce it.
If we need to heal ourselves or others or a particular situation, the effect is healing or repair and the cause of that is the right virtue.
Conclusion to this point is that each virtue or value is causative or causal in nature.
The word and the sexual energy are also causative or causal. Telling us, that to enhance the causal power of any virtue, our use of the word and our sexual energy must align with the virtue and not go against it.
Each virtue uses the word. The use of the word that affirms the virtue is the use that we need. Each virtue requires creative energy to act. Consciously moving and investing our sexual energy into the virtue empowers it with creative energy.
Which is the most important virtue to develop?
They are all linked! We all need to develop different virtues at different times. The one we need now is the most important. However we can not go wrong with developing consciousness or love or humility.
The true development of any virtue leads to a degree of development of the others.
We know what we need to develop knowing our lacks.
Developing a virtue is a matter of introducing it's ways into the centres of our human machine.
The way of each virtue comes from a state of consciousness. Each virtue represents a way of thinking and feeling of the consciousness that flows according to the principles and laws of the virtue. You may call it a particular mind-set with its truths.
The virtues have some common laws and principles. Passive mind, passive personality and giving of itself.
We can start by developing a virtue right now. Even if the circumstances to exercise and develop it are not present right now. Because the development of the virtue starts in the intellect and the emotion.
We must study the ways of the virtue until a sense of it begins to form in our intellectual centre and in our the emotional part of our intellectual centre.
The best way to study the virtue is in action. The way to do that is to find someone who has that virtue and keenly observe them in action, ask them questions and learn from them. If we can't find someone, then study someone who has the opposite of hte virtue and study them by doing the opposite. We can study using both hands: right and left, light and dark.
This is really how a group working on themselves can help each other, The virtues are distributed amongst all people so as to serve as examples for everyone to learn from.
From emotional part of the intellect it can enter the emotional centre. From within the emotional centre we must spend the most time developing the emotion of the virtue, which is the embracing and accepting of the virtue, in other words the powering up of the virtue.
The emotional centre is close to action.
We need to always give octaves of the virtue.
The right virtue is a magic solution. If the virtue we are choosing is not doing magic we have simply chosen the wrong one.
The final goal is to put the virtue into the instinctive centre, where it becomes our nature.
Have to know the following:
1.) What the virtue gives.
2.) What the virtue repairs or heals.
3.) How the virtue thinks
4.) How the virtue feels
5.) What the virtue does.
6.) How the virtue responds.
7.) What is the scope of the virtue. Where it starts and ends.
8.) What is the exaggeration of the virtue.
9.) What egos one must die in to allow the virtue.
10.) Know the environment and the opportunity to exercise the virtue.
Some virtues are so critical to hold a given situation together. The absence of these virtues causes things to crumble. Master Samael said that if he were to lose one drop of sexual energy the Gnostic Movement would fall apart.
The Step by Step Flow is:
1.) Know the virtue that you are going to develop by assessing the lack.
2.) Know the virtue. Study: read and observe.
3.) Embrace it in the intellectual centre.
4.) Look for the feeling of it in the intellect. It has now passed to the emotional part of the intellect.
5.) Start to them work with emotionally. Embrace it, accept it emotionally. Feel the virtue.
6.) Exercise the virtue in intellect and emotion.
7.) Begin the great learning of the art of the virtue through action, the result of intellect and emotion.
8.) Actively seek the environment and opportunities to develop the virtue.
The development of each virtue turns into an art.
The virtues change our destiny, enhance our mystical death and free us from stagnation.
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From a conversation with a fellow Gnostic brother I leant about this teaching which comes from another spiritual teacher and writer: Ken Wilber
The teaching says that God for the human being has three faces:
1.) God in me.
2.) God in you.
3.) God everywhere.
How true is that. God is in those three areas. Our relationship to God is really threefold. It is about being able to see God in those three areas to have a complete relationship to God.
It is quite profound. It is really saying that if we can't see God in any of those three areas we are not relating well to God.
We may be able to see God in nature, in the stars, in the heavens but not in ourselves and in others then something is unbalanced and this will certainly have profound ramifications in our psychology, in our ways of thinking and in our attitudes and concepts.
The same if we can only see God in ourselves and in no one else or in no other part of creation. We would become terribly proud - a mythomaniac I dare say. Which is really unhealthy.
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Gnosis is really different to so many other ways or schools. There is no hand-holding. We are tasked to be strong, face our reality, take responsibility for it and gather the strength and wisdom to change it.
The help is in being given the teachings and the keys to do it and the rest is up to us to fight along side and with the help of others to understand the teachings clearly and work out how best to apply them.
The paradox is, that when we are in the struggle and fight of applying the work is when the most help comes.
When we are waiting or wanting that our hand be held, is precisely when no help comes, even enmity can come as a message to tell us that that is the wrong attitude.
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The tunnel with a light at the end that many see during near death experiences could well be the passageway to the pineal gland, from where the essence leaves the physical body from.
The pineal gland is said to be the set of the soul. That is the main entrance for the essence into the body.
The physical body is like a castle with many entrances and windows. Many say that the senses are the windows of the soul and it is also said that the pineal gland and the muladhara chakra are the entrances.
End (5115).
As Master Samael says the Father embodies wisdom and the Mother Love and the HUman Soul will.
The Father just as wisdom seems to be so indifferent and aloof, yet his is how wisdom makes Him. While the Mother is so close and overbearing, yet this how love makes her.
What is best is father-mother, wisdom and love working together complementing each other. The result is the son - true force or another word for it is conscious will.
True force is loving and wise force. Force that is motivated by love and directed by wisdom. Love gives force the why and wisdom gives force the how. Both love and wisdom combine to know when.
Both Father and mother have force and their force is in the son and the son being conscious will goes to rescue or help the essence out of its various predicaments in life. The best of both is in the son. That is why the human soul is so adored.
One of the roles of force in creation is to rescue and lift out of predicament, especially in difficult situation. That is why Master Samael as Avatar had to come at the end of cycle, in humanity's darkest hours.
End (5114).
From the Glossary of www.glorain.org: --- to ---
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“Greek λόγος, from λέγω lego "I say," means Verb or Word. The unifying principle. The Logos is the manifested deity of every nation and people; the outward expression or the effect of the cause which is ever concealed. (Speech is the "logos" of thought). The Logos has three aspects, known universally as the Trinity, Trikaya, or Trimurti. These are related to the three primary forces behind all forms of creation. Note the three logoi here:
"In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with Theos, and the Logos was Theos. He was with Theos in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1
"...the Logos, the fundamental intelligent principle of nature." - Samael Aun Weor, Gnostic Anthropology
The First Logos is the Father, Brahma, Kether.
The Second Logos is the Son, Vishnu, Chokmah.
The Third Logos is the Holy Spirit, Shiva, Binah.
One who incarnates the Logos becomes a Logos. In Buddhism, the Logos is the Trikaya: Dharmakaya, Sambogakaya, Nirmanakaya.
"The Logos is not an individual. The Logos is an army of ineffable beings." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology”
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In the beginning sound was first, before light. Sound or the word starts creation and light emerges in the process of creation.
The Logos sounds, and if there is sound there is vibration and if there is vibration there is movement and if there is movement there is life.
Sound is everywhere in the cosmos, which is often referred to as Universal Sound. According to the Law of Vibration, as there is sound everywhere everything must then be vibrating at some degree or another. If there is vibration there must be movement and if there is movement there must be energy.
As everything vibrates, all these vibrations form a great ensemble which then produces a great overarching sounds. The Earth has its sound, each planet has its sound and each solar system has its sound and each galaxy has its particular sound.
In the great scheme of the cosmos we find the sounds and rhythms of creation, of which the latter come from the law of activity and response. Combining the sounds and rhythms of creation a cosmic symphony is produced. The whole of the cosmos is then sustained by and marches according to this symphony.
Everything in the universe is a vibration, a sound. Every activity has it’s particular sound.
The Law of Octaves governs sound, in a very similar way to musical notes.
“The word octave comes from Medieval Latin octava, from Latin, feminine of octavus eighth, from octo "eight," and refers to the difference in sound between the first and eighth notes on a musical scale, thus indicating that the eighth note repeats the first, but higher or lower. To symbolize this, humanity has long used a scale to represent the steps between the first and eighth notes:
DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI-DO”
The parts of every human body vibrate and therefore produce sound. The sum of all these sounds produce a single sound called the keynote.
We get in touch with this sound when we remember ourselves and it is the sound of our Inner Being. If someone were to play that sound and amplify it we would die.
By the Law of Resonance playing at the same sound as the keynote of an object or causes the keynote of the object to vibrate more intensely.
Our very own brain emits a certain sound that we can hear in mediation and helps us with entering higher states of consciousness. Concentrating on this sound in our brain can help us unfold into the astral. This sound often resembles the sound of wind, flute playing or crickets.
The Earth itself emits a certain sound called in esotericism the NIRIOONOSIAN sound.
The word itself teaches us this: mantra is Sanskrit made up of two Sanskrit words: 'manas' and 'trai'. Manas means mind or thought or reflection and trai means protect or be free from. Putting these two meanings together we see that the word 'mantra' means to be free from the mind.
So with a mantra we can free our mind to experience our consciousness and our consciousness can then in turn experience the sound hidden in the mantra, which is a vibration, an energy of a cosmic order.
The traditions say that if you know the name of something you can gain mastery over it. This would be the inner name. Knowing its vibration, its sound we can identify with it and therefore with our consciousness being aware of the identification we can know its inner qualities.
The objective of mantra is to connect the mind to the cosmic mind, where our mind can then dip into the primordial sounds of the cosmos. Mantras are to cause our consciousness to lift away from our mind and to experience the vibration of a certain thing.
In the Golden Age of the Earth the Golden Language (sacred universal language) was spoken. It consisted of 52 vowels and was vastly richer and it was the era when the Divine Being through the human could command nature with this language.
As a remnant of this language, Hebrew and Sanskrit are sacred mantric languages. Where the words have mantric power are linked to the primordial cosmic sounds.
The word is causal. The word is intimately linked to the scales of justice (balance), meaning it is intimately linked to the Law of Cause and Effect.
The word creates and in doing so, sets in place a chain of consequences. We have a karmic responsibility for each word that we speak.
When a person teaches esotericism their words are weighed on the scale and the results processed by the Law of Katancy.
Prayer is powerful. Prayer is made by the word and much of its power comes from the power of the word. We need to know how to pray properly. Which consists in placing behind our words the appropriate power.
Because we do not align the three brains when we pray we often find the opposite or something else results. Nature always answers the stronger force behind our words.
All religions use sound and mantra:
From the Buddhist tradition:
• Om Mani Padme Hum (I bow to the jewel in the lotus of the heart)
• Nam myoho renge kyo (Homage to the lotus sutra)
• Sabbe sattā sukhi hontu (May all beings be happy)
• Gate gate paragate parasaāgate bodhi svaha (Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, Hail the awakened one)
From the Christian tradition:
• Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me
• Hail Mary, full of grace
From the Jain tradition:
• Namokar mantra (bowing down to the conquerors of the senses)
• Pratikramana prayer (asking for forgiveness)
From the Jewish tradition:
• Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad (Hear O Israel:
• The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is One)
• Shalom (Peace)
• Elohim (a name for God)
From the Muslim tradition:
• Allahu Akbar (God is great)
• Bismillah Al-Rahman, Al-Rahim (In the name of God, most
• Gracious, most Compassionate)
From the Sikh tradition:
• Wahe Guru (wonderful teacher)
• Mool Mantra (basic teaching)
The word is instrumental in creating any atmosphere among human beings.
The word creates in geometry in space. When a tape recorder records onto a magnetic tape geometric forms are left on the tape. When the sound of the OM travels through a board of sand after a time a beautiful geometrical figure forms.
Colour is a vibration, which is a sound. There is an intimate link between sound and colour. Our keynote produces a sound which in turn produces the colour of our aura.
Kundalini it has been said in Gnosis is condensed sound, That is the condensed sound of our the Akash within our microcosmos.
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What would hard-core training to awaken look like?
Well it wouldn't look like anything that we are imagining or thinking it to be.
We would not find it pleasant.
To awaken is to more often than not scrape and breakaway the false that we are dearly holding onto.
Starting by putting our attention on the very small details of ourselves in all environments and and during all tasks is the start.
It builds he necessary power of attention and discovery to work with the more subtle which are the thoughts and emotions.
A tricky or dangerous physical environment would require us to become very alert so as to not get hurt.
To awaken we are put into psychological environments that are very tricky, complicated, spiky and sensitive This is to help us to awaken. As soon as we fall asleep, whack! TIme to wake up and be alert!
End (5112).
I wonder does our Inner Being punish us if we are doing something wrong? Something that is not humanly or morally wrong but something that perhaps is not in agreement with the principles or will of the Being?
There is a teaching from m.m.m that says that the Inner Being does not punish or chastise but educates instead.
Perhaps this education seems like a punishment. Perhaps difficulties are the only way the Inner Being has to get through to us...
Sometimes you just wonder, it is karma, is it the egos or is it the secret resistance of nature that provokes all one difficulty or lesson after the other...
Well one has to ask and ask and wake up to what in truth it is.
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Here below is a list of the parts of the Being as presented in the Gnostic teachings.
We know though, that this list is more like a template. In reality, a Divine Being may have unfolded Itself differently and there may be many more unfolded parts than those on the list.
Also for certain, the parts of a Divine Being will have their own particular names, which will be different those on the list. Their functions though will be very similar if not the same.
Nonetheless, this is our template and our way of starting to connect the diverse parts of our Inner Being.
1. Ancient of the Days
2. Intimate Christ
3. Holy Spirit
4. Atman or Chesed
5. Spiritual Soul or Geburah
6. Human Soul or Tiphereth
7. The Twelve Apostles
8. Two Extraordinary figures: Luke and Marc
9. The Twenty Four Elders
10. The Five Helpers
11. The Four Sants
12. Interior Anubis
13. Guardian of the Threshold
14. Sandalphon and Metraton
15. Elemental INtercessor
16. Interior Minerva
17. Lion of the Law
18. Twelve Saviours
19. Lord of Time
20. Damsel of Remembrance
21. Five Trees
22. Interior Salome
23. Interior Mary Magdalene
24. Interior John the Baptist
25. Police of the Karma
26. Jehu - Face of the Lord
27. Angel of the Lord
28. Guardian of the Veil
29. Sabaoth the Worthy
30. The Nine Guardians of the Treasure of the Light
31. The Last Helper
32. Seven Radicals
33. The Two Mage Guides
34. Guardian Angel
35. Interior Moses
36. Interior Morpheus
37. Interior Melkisedek
38. INterior Antimony
39. Interior Martha
40. The Great Merciful
41. The Rulers of the Light and the Councilors of the Aeons
42. Interior Lucifer
Note: This list was taken from a book written by Oscar Uzcategui on the same topic.
End (5110).
Each day is a precious opportunity to do something for our Inner Being.
If we make a point of doing something in our day we will do it.
If we make a point of awakening to something and dying to something in our day we will also do it.
Make it a point for each day and we will create a line of work and that line will create a destiny.
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The work on ourselves really should extend everywhere within us and within our life.
There should not be a person or areas that we for some reason don't bring the work into.
We can really make this mistake. However when we realise it and bring and apply the work, things are much better for it.
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What really makes a 'work' a 'work' is a constant line of work.
To produce in our lives a constant line of work no matter what it is for, is a grand achievement. So common is the case that us human beings are so inconsistent and sporadic and consequently get nowhere.
It is really the means by which we develop in any way.
If we set up for ourselves as the most important thing a line of work, working on ourselves everyday in the same way. That is doing the same practice but on different subjects. For example meditations on the death of the ego but on different "I's".
With that line of working we can know and say that we are really working and going to get somewhere.
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There is really so much self-love to do with our concepts and ways of thinking and feeling about things. There is also so much self-love about our ways of doing things.
What keeps us attached to our own concepts about things is a kind of a love affair with them and ourselves.
We must love our Being and ourselves as an essence of a Divine Monad but to love our concepts that are not Divine in nature and could well be erroneous or are just as good as the concepts of others, does not make much sense.
Yet we are truly in love with our concepts...
The proof is that we get upset and angry and fight over our concepts when they are challenged, and furthermore we feel that things should all go in accordance with our concepts so that our concepts are 'pleased'.
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| Wrong concept little buddy - big green is not always equal to big orange. |
The conclusion is to work to detach ourselves from our very own concepts. This is freedom and so useful in practical life. It also does not mean we are any less or that we are going to disappear or become weak and ineffective.
The essence does not have concepts. It does not depend on concepts and it is shines more powerfully even without concepts. Each concept is a bottle or jail for the essence.
End (4549).
This post is a collection of notes about the ray of force.
My hope is that while reading it, a certain atmosphere will be formed allowing you in your particular way to make a connection to the ray of force. Then through that connection you may be able to find something you are looking for...
Having said that the best connection to the ray of Force is truly the teachings of Master Samael. His ray - the ray of Force is alive in all his books and lectures.
One of the eternal properties of God, is God being almighty! God can not be God, if God is not almighty, right?
Just like God can not be God, if God is not all knowing. All-knowing, all-seeing, almighty, all-present, all-being are the properties that only God (the Absolute) can have.
Classically, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-being, all-present and almighty are attributed to God and no one or anything else.
Might or strength coming directly from the almighty property of God is one of the primordial divine properties of God (Absolute).
The ray of Force is the might or strength of God in action in creation.
In no way can God we be weak. Why? Because if God was weak, another force may be able to overcome God and perhaps install itself as the creating and governing principle...
From the above statement we can see that force, one of the key eternal properties of God is related to combat (interaction of forces), protection, order and governing (power).
We will see later in this post how the ray of force works closely with the rays of law, order, love, wisdom, medicine, life and death.
Everything in the universe that has life is a force. If something has energy it has force. Though the ray of force is more than that (energy), it is also the consciousness of force.
As we can imagine, the force of God is so needed in creation to maintain the order that the intelligent principles of the universe have set in motion.
So that the intelligent principles and creating Gods may lead and preside over creation, the ray of force is needed.
In keeping order and rebelling against the order force is needed.
What can produce chaos in creation is force. What can produce and maintain order in creation is force.
Only force can rebel and overcome reason, where that reason is order and balance. To break and either restore balance force is needed.
Here we can see the duality of force. The Divine Law uses force to restore balance and to administer the many backlashes that come about because of the misuse of having broken balance.
One can easily appreciate how the ray of force was instrumental in the rebellion of the angels.
The force of the Absolute is needed unfold creation. The ray of Force is related to the ray of Life.
The ray of force in our Solar System is administered and governed by Mars and its regent is Logos Samael. Our guru!
It is interesting to note how it was the Logos of Mars Samael's turn to govern over the fifth root race, which is the race that is furthest away from Divinity experiencing the iron age.
Iron is the the metal of industry, construction, weaponry - in short labour and war.
The ray of force is the only one that can do something on a large scale in these times of the closing of a cycle...
The ray of forces protects.
The Absolute knew that in the chaos or creation various human beings would need to be protected.
The ray of Force holds the mysteries of the strength of God. Some of the mysteries of force are unity, will, life force energy and justice.
Force is needed to create and start a certain enterprise. It is also needed to lift a given enterprise that is withering.
Force is used to build or destroy. To raise up or bring down.
Force becomes most visible in duality where often a clash of forces is witnessed. The ray of force is needed to help various energies prevail over others.
One of the roles of force is to provide the strength to overcome difficulties.
Force is used to uphold the laws. The ray of Force is related tot eh ray of the Law.
Force is needed to break and surpass the inferior to come under superior laws.
The ray of force favours the just.
The way of the warrior, the way to God through the conscious path of force.
Force finds it most potent combination with wisdom. Then it can serve justice.
Force combines so well with wisdom and love.
The ray of force is the ray that sacrifices itself a lot. It enters into the fray of conflict sacrificing itself for the restoration of balance.
Force is always behind revolution. If it was not for the force Master Samael put into the doctrine we would not be able to enact a revolution within ourselves.
If a malevolent force triumphs it is because the Divine Law supported it.
Love converts into force. Love then converts into wisdom to further its reach.
Love and wisdom are must to be developed for those of the ray of force. Many egos relating to love and wisdom will appear to be dissolved for those of this ray.
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| Planet Mars |
We see Master's Samael's mission being from the ray of force his gospel had to be the Alchemy. To bring this message to the world, force was needed to push through all the resistance. The Alchemy itself is to work with the primordial forces of creation within the human being and the cosmos.
Mars is said to behind any country or party that enters into war. For as long as the country or party remains just.
We see when in life in the age from 35 to 42 we come under the planet Mars. We are given the force to truly fight to establish ourselves in our chosen vocation or position in life.
Force maintains, transcends, builds, destroys, defends, attacks and supports.
Each Monad has a tremendous force. Which is in its will.
The ray of force is the one that stands heroic. No other ray seems to hold the place of heroes.
There is no triumph without force. The ray of force is in charge of delivering triumph. When love and wisdom are behind force, it justly brings victory.
The gift of the ray of force is victory.
Love invokes force, wisdom guides it, justice gives it the right measure and scope and love motivates it.
The spirit is strong and the flesh weak. The stronger force or strength is with the spirit. The Being in us needs force to function in matter.
The strength of God is the ray of force. To love God and approach God with strength is the motto of the ray of Force.
Those of the ray of force see God as the strength that holds everything and the strength that holds us in God, with God and to God. OM SEA FUERZA!
All powerful is - all mighty is God.
God give me strength is what some mothers would say when their children did something wrong.
If you feel strong and have force - direct it inwardly to know yourself deeper than you have ever before. Such inwards efforts make the force we are gifted with useful.
All force comes from the Being and should return to It. That is our true role with force.
We need force to concentrate and to call the virtue.
Everything is round, all energies and forces descend only to traverse an arc returning to its origin. As the origin is the Being that is where it must return.
The force that keeps us standing is a phenomenal force, which Master Samael tells us descends from Mars. Truly without that force we would be jelly. I feel that we may not even be able to walk. We really do not know the power and significance of that force.
We see how the liver is related to Mars as it is the organ in us that fights tirelessly to break down compounds that the body can not otherwise assimilate.
The military the armed forces etc. are expressions of this ray.
A military is an expression of a country's human and esoteric force. The military is used to defend, rescue, liberate, restore order, attend to emergency situations and occupy foreign lands (not just if it is not within the plans of the Divine Law - like how it was the plan of the Law for the Roman Empire to expand by the hand of Julius Cesar - Ray of Force)
The wrong side of force is to oppress, exploit, destroy.
Bravery comes from the ray of force and is love and force in flight.
Behind any revolution of a human government there is force.
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