The Ego and Cancer

From the Gnostic point of view there is a link between the sickness known as Cancer and the ego.

If we read a little about the disease called cancer we will discover that it is a disease that destroys the body’s cells. It is something malignant that operates from within our very body’s cells and destroys them. The ego is certainly like that.

The “I” is in Our Cells

The ego is something that is within our psyche and within our body and its cells also. The ego as you may know has a very genetic component. There are some egos that allow us to feel good and then there are other egos that make us to feel terrible and there are other egos that by their action and even presence in our human machine make us to feel ill.

The egos that go against us such as fear, self-pity and self-compassion, anxiety, nervousness etc. are the ones that work against us and damage our body and its cells. If the ego is not worked on it will in time gain strength and spread its control over the body and over our life as well. It spreads very much like a cancer. It starts of small but gains in strength and size and takes control.

“I” of Lust & its Effects

There is one ego though that we often ignore, and it is lust but more importantly fornication. We never forget about fear because we know that it predominantly makes us to feel awful. It is a very unpleasant experience and one that is hard to forget. However, when it comes to lust there are two sides. One side is that while we are engaged in it and are feeding or pleasing it, it for many is people is an experience that produces pleasurable sensations. The result though or what happens after it is pleased to satiation is not at all pleasurable. The result of lust and more importantly fornication is pain! This is always the case! (Don’t fool yourself thinking that it is not always the case).

It is really this after effect that is so harmful for our body and its cells, our psyche or essence and our Being. We know in Gnosis that the karma or the result of fornication, which is the act of spilling the sexual energy (semen in men and sexual secretions in women) is cancer.

Cancer – Karma for Fornication

This is something at first very surprising, alarming and shocking. Why? Because we think that Cancer is something deadly and fornication is something that does not kill or hurt anyone and it is something harmless for others and ourselves. However, if we accept this Gnostic teaching and we think about it again, we have to come to the conclusion that for fornication to result in cancer, fornication has to be something serious and something very damaging to the body.

Why?

With some esoteric knowledge this gap in understanding can be solved. First of all let’s see what the sexual energy is. The sexual energy is the end result of all the various transformations of the prana that body takes in. Note, Prana is the great life, the energy that is of the energy and substance of life. It is what sustains life, it is life itself, it sis the force of life. Everyone has a certain quantity of it and while we have it we have life, when Prana leaves us, life leaves us.

In summary, because there is a much longer explanation to all this, the sexual energy, that is the raw sexual energy the seminal entity (sacred sperm in men and sacred sexual secretions in women) is the accumulation of Prana that we breathe in and we absorb through what we eat and what we think. So then the sexual energy in us is life, because it comes from Prana, because it comes from what gives us life and sustains our life. So then when we fornicate or ejaculate the seminal entity or somehow loose the sexual energy we are losing life force. We are losing the force that sustains our life and holds all the cells together and keeps the cells living and regenerating themselves.

Conclusion

So if we are losing that condensed prana, or creative energy or life force we are not going to be able sustain the regeneration of our cells and we weaken our vitality or vital energies. That is one aspect which is essentially cause and effect, however, there is another aspect or side to it, and that is karma. After years of losing that energy in say an abusive way or in an overly excessive way then the accumulated karma catches up with us and we are forced to pay all at once in painful instalments. Obviously the payment is always to suffer in the same way that we have made others or ourselves to suffer. The trick though is by losing all that sexual energy in the past due to ignorance we suffered only a little the ego of fornication enjoyed doing what it did but we have to pay for that abuse against ourselves against the one who provides us with the life force by having our own present current life force depleted or eroded away. The agent to erode or deplete our life force is nothing other than a horrible disease such as cancer or aids or something like that.