Invest in the Absolute

Investment

Everything in life is some sort of investment. No matter what the investment is we always as human beings invest time, energy, intellectual, emotional and physical effort as well as some kind of resource, where it be knowledge, money, people, or perhaps something magical or esoteric.

The esoteric work that we carry out in Gnosis is certainly no different. It is no more than an investment of our time, our consciousness, our love (for the work and the Being), our physical and spiritual energy and some of our physical resources such money (especially if you are a Gnostic missionary).

Of course the same principle applies as in life, the more we invest the greater the return. If we invest our life in our esoteric spiritual work towards our Being we can expect one day to win back our the integration with our Being. This act of putting our life at the service of the work towards our Being was called by Master Samael the transvaluation.

The Work of the Absolute

We here have introduced that of investing, however this is not really want we want to present in this post. We want to take a slightly angle and talk about investing in relation to the absolute and the third factor.

As you may know the Absolute the Great Common Cosmic Father or the Great Being of all the Beings has a cause, which in Gnosis we know it as the “Great Cause”. Which is essentially the work of the Absolute to unite within it all the Beings in creation in a self-realised state, in other words the Absolute wants all its parts to come back to it in a fully conscious state. That is a state where each part is fully conscious of itself, which includes who it is, from where it has come from and what it is.

The Absolute is working to achieve this and it is worth mentioning here that every time one of its parts (a Being which definitely had or has a human being as a bodhisattwa) returns to the Absolute in a self-realised or conscious state the Absolute enhances itself and shines brighter. This is because the knowledge, wisdom, experience and power that this Being has acquired in creation merges with the Absolute and enhances it.

The Absolute’s Helpers

To achieve this goal the Absolute needs workers or helpers, and we the people who are trying to help others in their spiritual esoteric work of self-realisation are those helpers. In the end a Gnostic missionary is one that works for the Absolute. People who help in some way the spread of the Gnostic teachings or any teachings that are really complete (contain the three factors) and direct people towards the self-realisation of the Being are collaborators in the “Great Cause”. So it occurs that a person may not even be in the Gnostic teachings but may give his or her time to help the missionary to spread the teachings, for example the father or mother of the Gnostic missionary. In this case the father or mother of the Gnostic missionary wins merits for working in the Great Cause of the Father and these merits will later on help the person when their Monad or Being decides to work in its self-realisation.

The Absolute Pays Its Helpers

We as helpers of the Absolute’s great project certainly get paid. So every time we work for the Absolute we are paid, also when we work for the Absolute we are investing in the Absolute.

We can work for the absolute in many ways. There are really two ways of working for the Absolute. One is working on ourselves, that is, working towards our own self-realisation. This helps the Absolute, because that will lead to the Absolute achieving its goal with us, and the second way is working for the self-realisation of others. The best way to work for the Absolute though is to work in both fields, that is, on ourselves and for others. This way really pays the maximum benefits.

Why is Working for the Absolute is the Best Investment

There are several reason why we should invest in the absolute rather than in the stock markets of New York and London.

Beyond Time

All the investments in life can be useful for a time but as soon as we get sick or die they are useless to us, they may be useful to those who we leave behind but as soon as they get sick or die they are useless. The point is that we are trying to make here is that all the investments in life die or perish in time, because they belong to time. They are born in time and die in time. Because the Absolute is beyond time it has always been and will always be, any investment in it will never perish.

At Our Very Core

In many ways we don’t need to invest in the many things that we in life, invest in, because they are outside of us and they don’t make any change to our interior nature, they may bring us some enjoyment but they won’t change us, or enlighten us or make us radically different people. They may not even help other people. But investing in the spiritual work or in the work of the Absolute is something that is of our inner core that is so deep down fundamentally us. To invest in the work of the Absolute is to really help ourselves and others right at our very own core. The Absolute is our authentic home and it is the place where we all must end up and it is the place from where we have all come from.

Pays After Death

Whatever investment we make in the Absolute will serve us well after death and will win us merit. It may even be able to prolong our life by the very fact that we are useful to the Absolute.

Will Never Disappoint

Unlike so many human investments the investment in the Absolute will never let you down and it will never go bankrupt or miss a payment. It is does seem to let you down it is because there is something karmic impediment or a lack of vision on our part.

If a karmic impediment is stopping some sort of payment or flow of capital that is ok because we are paying that karmic debt and as karma has a beginning it will also have an end, and logically one day it will finish. Unlike human investments what we invest in them are sometimes lost and they do not fulfil their promises, well this won’t happen with the Absolute and it will never ever go bankrupt like all the human businesses one day will as they are subject to the law of impermanence.

Conclusion

What we wanted to achieve in this post is to put across a very convincing argument that the best thing we can do in life is to invest in the Absolute, that is to invest our life which is nothing more than our time and our energy in the work of the Absolute. Why? Because it is what we all are and its goal is peace, harmony and the enhancement of the consciousness and lives of every human being.

If everyone were to do that then the Earth would be a very different place indeed.