About a Fall and the Factors Behind it

Introduction

Certainly it is worth studying what makes one fall spiritually. We know straight away that sex is one of the avenues, yes that is most certainly true, yet it is not the only avenue by which a human being can fall spiritually. Studying and knowing in depth where, how and why the human being falls is a great help to keep us alert to any dangers in the future that would have us fall.

This post also exposes the psychology involved in a fall. It is my greatest hope, that you, dear reader, may remember this and may it ring the alarm bells of your consciousness warning you that you are in danger of falling! Do all that you can to back out and return to safety. Because to fall only brings pain, no matter what the mind believes. Pain will come no matter what the mind says. PAIN WILL COME!

What Are We Doing Here?

We are all here paying karma because sometime in the past we fell. We fell away from the Being and we lost our paradisiacal state. Before we could fall we left the Absolute, not so much as a fall but because the Monad, or Monad that is had the desire to be someone or something different to the Absolute and so this caused an imbalance in the Absolute where the Absolute had to vomit our Monad.

A Marvellous Teaching

Where or in what avenues do we fall. Well there is a marvellous teaching that says we fall or danger of falling exists in sex, money and power. The conclusion here is that we have to free ourselves from these three things, if we do not want to fall.

May be we can Fall in Other Ways?

Let’s have a look at it, can we fall due to any other avenue of life or esotericism. Let’s be open about it and explore, that way we can really come to an understanding of how we fall.

Of all the things that a human being can do to fall spiritually they all have as their base reason one of these three factors (sex, money and power). For example, an initiate may betray his brethren or his/her order or the white lodge by divulging certain secrets that only pertain to members of that order. Such an action would precipitate a fall yet apparently it did not have anything to do with money, sex or power. But if we were to look to the reasons why he or she betrayed his/her order the reason would coincide with one of these three factors.

We lie, we steal, we kidnap, we murder and all the many other things all because of one of these three factors. Behind money, could be attachment, luxury, ignorance and materialism, behind sex is lust, behind power is pride, control and ambition. The thing that is common to all of them is desire, they all desire something separate to the Being. They are all about pursuing a will separate or distinct from that of the Being. They desire to be more than the Being or to have more than what it seems that the Being can give. Desire is twofold it is always either the desire ‘to be’ or the desire ‘to have’.

Three Primary Forces

There are, as master Samael said three primary forces or principles in the universe that also belong to our very own Being and they are the first, second and third logos. They are commonly known in the West as the Holy Affirming, The Holy Denying and the Holy Conciliating forces or perhaps more commonly known as the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. The point here is that when we go against one of these three principles we certainly distance ourselves from them and therefore our own Being and we either go further away but can come back or we either we rupture and break away. If the latter happens then we definitely fall in a way that can not be easily repaired, and we have to start from zero again.

Those principles are Truth, Love and Chastity. When we lie we go against the Father, when we hate we go against the Son and when we fornicate (loose the sexual energy) we go against the Holy Spirit.

To tie this all up we have the three factors that produce the spiritual demise of the human being, which are sex, power and money. So we can tie sex straight away to the third primary force, power to the first primary force and money to the second primary force. When we are obsessed with money it is for ourselves and it is not to give to others and when we desire power it is to be greater than or as great as the Being, so it is against the principle of truth, where the truth is that the Being is the one who is truly greater.

Sex

A question do we need sex? The answer is yes. But in a certain sense, not in the vulgar common sense that may come to mind. We need it for the work of realisation, that is, to create the superior existential bodies of the Being. Going back to the answer to this question, from the vulgar point of view, there are people on the Earth, such as supposedly all the monks, nuns and priests that have not had sex in their life or renounce to sex for the rest of their lives when they take their vows. So, in the vulgar sense it is not needed and people can live without it. How well do they live without it and does living without it cause some sort of problems in the body and psyche of the person?

How we Fall through Sex

We fail with sex or through sex when we voluntarily ejaculate the sexual energy (semen in men, sexual secretions in women) through orgasm, that is when we have been transmuting and not losing the sexual energy. If we have been transmuting for a long time the fall is greater. If we have been on the other hand transmuting for only a very short time then the fall is not really a fall because we have not climbed very far.

When we have been keeping, cultivating and transmuting the sexual energy for a long time, we stand to lose a lot of what we have gained spiritually. This is what we call a fall. A fall occurs where we have climbed to some height and then do something that belongs to a much inferior level of the Being, such as fornication (loss of the sexual energy).

Energetic, Biological, Psychological and Esoteric Fall

When one does lose the sexual energy there is always technically speaking a fall, because the energy that was being accumulated in the body has been lost. A certain potency of energy and vibration has been lowered in the body after a loss of the sexual energy. One’s energy level always drops after the loss of the sexual energy.

Also, the more voluntary the loss of the sexual energy, is the greater the degree of the fall. If a person loses the sexual energy that may not be considered a fall as such before the Divine Law. Energetically, biologically and psychologically and also esoterically it is, however such a person will not get such a punishment as the one who spills the sexual energy knowingly. Because the person who does it knowingly, knows better, knows the value of the sexual energy and is then voluntarily acting against the Christic force or principle inside him or herself and in the cosmos. It is like a betrayal and we know that betrayal is one of the worst crimes or the one that is punished more severely. You can find this in the laws of the various nations in this world. Betrayal or treason carries the highest punishment especially in wartime. As an aside Dante’s Inferno of the Divine Comedy puts treason right in the ninth circle where the punishment for the deceased souls is the harshest compared to all the other circles.

Deep down in our psychology we know that in losing the sexual energy there is a lack of will and that there is something that is not right. There is a sort of lowering of oneself or submittal of oneself to fleeting pleasure. That is a reason why so many men get angry after a loss of the sexual energy and mistreat women, because they blame their weakness on the women. It is not their fault though it is the weakness of the man, he should have will, respect for his energy, not submit himself and look forward to or cheer on to a depletion of his power. This is what upsets the man either knowingly or unknowingly, though after a while the man forgets this and becomes a slave to that sensation of losing the sexual energy and does great and crazy things just to experience that loss (strange pleasure) again.

A fall through the loss of the sexual energy is terrible when one has the kundalini, because then the kundalini drops a number of vertebra, and as master Samael says it is very costly to recuperate from the fall. The source of eh fire is in the sexual energy and when it is lost the kundalini fire’s source is weakened and so it has to drop, just as when the flame of an oil lamp suffers when some of its oil is spilt.

Money

This is quite a broad category and in it we should include things such as luxuries, security, safety, materialism, gold, precious gems, and in general all that money can buy because without money these things can not be acquired. A synthesis of this category is matter inside of relativity and duality.

Do we need money? The answer to that question is yes we do need money to live in this western and modern society. If we were an Australian indigenous tribe living off the land in the remote outback of Australia we would not need money, however in the cities of the world we need it. The need for money is relative it basically depends where and who you are in the world.

Why Money Leads to a Fall

How can money make us fall spiritually? This the key question here. The answer is that our relationship to it becomes so overly unbalanced that we end up doing wrong things to get it or get more of it. Usually because of some sort of desire whether it be to have something or to be something that we want money.

Why we Fall Due to Money

The first thing that we do wrong is to forget the Being, our interior divinity that is. We forget that he is the one that provides for us, that he is the only real and permanent one, we forget that everything that comes with money will one day perish, we forget to trust in the Being that what he has provided is all that we need.

The actual desire that is making us to go for money is a factor that acts inside of us in the same way that a wedge works. It gets in between us and our Being and as the desire grows the distance between us and the Being grows also. We tend to see more purpose in the efforts to acquire money than in the Being.

Why Do We Suffer?

The desire to or to have through money becomes so strong that it is more important than our spiritual work and so logically what happens one day is that we go and do something physical that makes us to lead a life where we don’t take into account the Being and we feel we don’t need the Being. This life then takes the person down into the normal run of values where the ways of doing things are not acceptable to the ethics and nature of the esoteric path. So the person neglecting the path will be vomited by it, and the result will be a fall.

Once again when we get out of control the Being, the Law and the spiritual path path are the right ingredients in relation to money we will unbalanced ourselves and fall, especially when we seeing money as the very means to maintain our work.in relation to the

Power

When an initiate or a master begins to progress in the path, certain powers and faculties are acquired by him or her. It is important to be able to differentiate between the following four cases:

·         Some powers are granted from the Being to the initiate.

·         Some powers are granted to the Being from the White Lodge or the law.

·         Some powers are granted to the initiate by the White Lodge.

·         Some powers are acquired by the initiate him or herself.

Having Powers is Risky

Having powers with the ego alive is a very risky affair for both the Being and the initiate, because, with the ego alive there is the potential or the risk that the initiate can make a mistake due to the misuse of a power.

However, it can be said that having powers acquired by either of the four means above is not really the concern, but what is the concern is what those powers are used for. If those powers are used for the interests of the ego then a fall will result.

One though can always say that if there are no powers, there is no risk of falling due to the misuse of powers. So no powers, no fall due to the misuse of powers.

The above statement is true and that is may be why so many initiates these days don’t seem to have the powers that Master Samael and the initiates around him had. May be because Master Samael was the avatar and he had a greater degree of consciousness and so he could manage those powers, and also because the Beings of the initiates these days, wants to keep their vehicles safe.

Egos Behind the Abuse of Powers

Mystical pride, vanity, ambition, self-love and self-importance are the egos that wish to acquire powers and use them for their own interests (agenda) and advantage. The fall is produced due to the misuse of powers when either the initiate does something wrong with the power and the karma for that is block the person from their own Being and submerge them in darkness once again or either it the initiate begins to think and believe the powers belong to him or her and so they believe that they do not need the Being and they become more and more disobedient and they begin to separate from the Being, with the result Being that they have to fall away from the Being and a fall is inevitably produced when the Being forces the vehicle to obey but the vehicle does not want to obey.

Attachment to Powers

The attachment to powers is the hidden danger, if powers have been acquired and they are used for good that is fine, however if attachment grows to the powers then a danger exists. A fall can be produced if the initiate or person does not want ot renounce to the powers if and when the Being demands that it be done. In general if there is no attachment to sex, money and powers to the degree that the person can give them up at any moment then the danger of falling due to these things is very slight.

Master Samael and the Sacred Key IT

Master Samael fell due to the misuse of powers where he misused the sacred key IT (not information technology) to make a queen fall in love with a certain gentleman. This act of magic went against the will of the Queen and so he was punished for that. This story is very interesting as it says to us that a bodhisattwa can be made to fall by the law of karma. Actually, it is better to say that the punishment for the grave misuse of a power is a fall.

Psychology of the Fall

The psychology or in simpler terms, thinking and feeling processes involved in a fall are very easy to identify, but hard (depending on the strength of the ego involved) on certain occasions to brush aside.

In fact, you can tell them a mile away, why? Because they are absurd, illogical and don’t make sense. They are sometimes as silly as spending $1000 to buy something that is worth 5 cents and can be bought at any corner store. In other words they are very hypnotic. They make us to see the illogical logical. The logic that the psychology of the fall works with is the logic of either pain or pleasure.

Due to wanting to avoid some intense pain, maybe physical or emotional, we let go of what is priceless and most valuable to us, or due to what is pleasurable we also let go of what is priceless and most uniquely valuable to us.

Balance and the Fall

Intimately Related

Balance and a fall are very much related, simply because we always fall due to a lack of balance. We at some point lose our balance and we have to fall to a place where we can find balance again.

Fall- Lack of the Balance between Forces

If we look at the physical reality for a moment now, we will see that whenever we fall or topple over, it is due to a lack of balance amongst the forces acting on our body. For example, if we are standing and we begin to lean forward the force of gravity will begin to act over the length of our body starting at from our head going down to our waist and maybe even a bit further down. To counteract this increasing force of gravity on our body we have to use our stomach and leg muscles to keep us from falling over. However, usually as our stomach and leg muscles are not so good at holding us in this position, the force of gravity wins and we either stumble forward or fall. As soon as we are on the floor or in a new position we are balanced once again, and we can maintain this position for a much longer time.

So the same thing applies to the psychological and physical realities, we basically fall or go backwards due to a lack in the balance amongst certain forces acting on and in our psychology and in our esoteric realms or dimensions.

There are within our psychological and esoteric constitution forces of the essence, of the Being and the work and there are forces of the ego and the personality etc. all acting within us. If it happens that we choose one option, say the work, the essence and the Being and we are balanced there in that position of taking the side of the work, and the forces of the ego begin to get stronger and stronger that balance will begin to become affected and then there will come a moment where we will not be balanced in that position because the force of the ego is too great and then will inevitably come a fall which only appears to seek balance. The result of the fall will be to take a position where the force of that ego is more in command of the person then the work, the essence and the Being. Usually, actually always the fall and the new balance will be complete when some sort of decision and action is made. When no decision is made and no action is taken the person is suspended in space and is not on either side (on both sides) , in such a state the person can not progress on either side.

When there is only one thing there is and will always be balance. However when there is duality balance must be sought. This is the difficult task seeking balance between two opposites or between two sides. This obviously requires wisdom, intelligence and love.

Classic Example

There is that classic example of how we start something with a fury, like meditating two hours a day to later in the following week to find that we have abandoned it and now instead of meditating two hours a day we are watching TV for two hours a day. This fall, is due to of course a lack of balance where the new very weak force was overcome by the forces of the ego, personality and body etc. The new force was not strong enough to establish a rebalancing of the person in their new position of meditating two hours a day. If the force was very strong it could have been done.

Why of the Fall?

Why do we fall, well that is easy to answer. The answer is that we violate some law, the principle law that we violate, being the law of balance. The reasons behind why we violate a law are many the main reasons have already been given and they are sex, money and power.

Temptation and the Fall

Before the fall there is always or usually always some sort of temptation, we are usually always tempted to fall. The temptation comes into play when the other force appears in us. Now, this other force which is an opposite to the line of our spiritual work can be brought to us by a recurrence, by the Typhon Baphomet or by our own sleeping consciousness, that is we allow the ego to get bigger and bigger in ourselves. No matter who or how the clash of the forces within us happens the natural result of the clashing of forces is a feeling of being tempted, we consider and get fascinated with the option of the ego.

Typhon Baphomet and Lucifer

The role of the Typhon Baphomet is to tempt us in order though to train us in wisdom and strengthen us. He does not want us to fall but his role is to tempt us so that we become invulnerable to falling. That is his job and so he has to polarise himself with the ego and do his work of tempting us.

Karma and the Fall

Obviously and very painfully the fall or a fall has very intense karmic consequences. Why, because the fall is the result of transgressing a law. Every fall implies some sort of karma, because with a fall we go backwards or down to where the level of the Being is lower and the circumstances are darker and of more suffering and difficulty compared to the level of the Being from where we fell.

Even the fall is a karmic consequence, because the law of karma is also the law of balance, so when we fall it is because the law of karma or balance has come into effect.

Usually the mistakes that we make that cause us to fall have their karmic consequences, and we have to pay those karmic debts for having made the error that produced the fall.

Even a fall can be karmic, that is it can be processed due to a previous karma. In simpler terms our own karma makes us or allows us to fall. This is of course because we have in the past done something to merit the fall or it is because we have to receive a tremendous lesson so not to fall to fall again. An initiate may be very close to the Being and very high up in the Great Work only to fall because of karma. This is obviously very painful and so it is done to never forget how painful the fall is and to not fall again in the future.

Master Samael gives us a very specific idea of the karma that is accumulated by a bodhisattwa that falls. He in fact says that the now fallen bodhisattwa is charged with betraying the white lodge, assassinating the inner Buddha (Atman) and various other minor crimes.

Karma and a fall or the fall, are very well related. We so easily for get this though. We often and that is part of why we fall because we are tricked by the ego that the fall will be make us happier or bring us pleasure or that things will still ok, nothing will happen or change if we fall.

Types of Falls

Two Types of Falls

There are basically two types of falls. One fall where we can recover from it and one fall where we have to start from zero again.

Even the above is relative, Master Samael said that when a bodhisattva falls he or she loses one third of all his or her powers. So the bodhisattwa is not really set back to position zero. However, if we treat the case where the mistake or error is not so grave, we fall to a lower level though with repentance and hard work we can regain what has been lost and advance again.

This situation, where we can recuperate what has been lost is symbolized internally by the Being descending from his throne, stumbling on the ground but keeping his sword firmly in his right hand. If the Being loses his sword then it is a definite fall, because the sword is the symbol of power, fire, virility and the kundalini. So losing these things the Being or actually the bodhisattwa of the Being loses his path and has to restart from zero.

A definite fall occurs, when the kundalini and all the raised serpents of the bodies, after making the mistake, descend and close themselves up in the coccyx once again. However, if the kundalini only drops a few vertebras then the fall can be recovered from.

The last thing to say here is that as karma and the fall are very related the type of all or rather the circumstances the person is left in, after a fall will depend greatly on the person’s individual karma. Every case will be different.

Final Stage of the Fall – The Most Important One

Any and every fall is complete when a decision is made and an action is taken in the physical world. The fall though may occur internally and maybe seen by others beforehand internally, though with time the fall will filter down to the physical world and will be manifested.

If the mistake does not happen physically it can be repaired, the Being can work from the causal to erase the filtering down of the mistake into the physical world.

Conclusion

Just don’t fall! Things will not be the same! Things will be worse!

Always keep a very watchful eye on these three things: money, power and sex! They are the avenues in which if a fall is going to happen, it will be due to one of these three factors. I repeat sex, power and money!