Introduction
This post continues on from the post where the aim was to lay
down a skeleton or outline for the next several posts which are to be dedicated
to explaining in detail, each characteristic of the Moon that is present in our
psychology.
The List Continues…
The Solar Force Organises
The Solar forces organise things, for example planets are
organised around the sun and this organisation forms a solar system, which is
an entity to itself and has a life as a unique system. Master Samael says that
the solar system is like a giant man walking through space.
In other words, the Sun organises and centralises and in so
doing creates a harmonious system, the Lunar forces on the other hand do not do
that and furthermore do not have the power to do that.
If we observe the behaviour of Moons, we will see that they do
not revolve around other moons, moons are very dependent yet isolated or we
could say individualistic and selfish, whereas the sun works in co-operation
and in collaboration with all the planets in the solar system and all the other
suns etc. in the cosmos. For example, take the central sun Sirius, it revolves
around a greater central Sun and it organises many solar systems and therefore
planets to revolve also revolve around Sirius.
The Solar forces are an organising and a centralising force,
that produces and creates harmony among all the other planets or heavenly
bodies. The Moon does not do that and does not have the power to do it. It is
only out for itself.
The Sun is Interested in Our Self-Realisation
Master Samael spoke about the Sun being interested in the
self-realisation of the human being on the planet Earth. Master Samael said
that the sun is interested in creating solar men, that is men who have
fabricated the solar bodies and incarnated the solar principles. This is in
stark contrast to the wish of the Moon or the lunar forces, they wish for
humanity to obey the mechanical cycles of creation.
The lunar forces are not interested in the human being
becoming more conscious and reaching realisation because if that were to happen
there would be less creatures for the Moon or the Lunar forces to govern. The
Moon is interested in keeping the human being fascinated and asleep so that it
can have life can continue on the planet.
Mechanical
This current human being or race of human beings living on
the planet earth has been called many times in the Gnostic teachings a lunar
humanity, meaning a mechanical humanity, a humanity void of the awakened consciousness
- a humanity with a sleeping consciousness.
This mechanicity has been given to us by the Moon. Being
mechanical we are not going to change or reinvent ourselves, we are basically
going to stay as we are. Well even in life people have the tendency to get
worse as time goes by, for instance, old people can become balder in the
expressions of their egos and they can even justify the ego being in their
human machine
The Sun also has the power to provide us with all that we
need for life and the self-realisation, the Moon on the other hand does not
create anything nor provide anything for us that we need.
Selfish & Parasitic
I can do but you can not, and we do to others what we don’t
like being done to us. This is a typical lunar characteristic of our
psychology. It does not take others into account and it does give others the
same rights that it gives to itself, which is a strange thing because in
reality we all have the same rights. This is an illusion produced by the lunar
nature.
The examples given above are typical of selfishness and are
very typical of the lunar nature. As we have mentioned before, the Moon is by
itself and only attaches itself to a larger planet so to take of the planet’s
forces, and to take advantage of the light it receives from the sun of the
solar system it belongs to. It is true that a moon can receive the light of a
sun being somewhere close to it in space, but attaching itself to a planet in a
solar system allows it to receive great quantities of continuous light without
the possibility of it clashing with the other planets in a solar system.
Furthermore we often think we are the only ones who are
right, that we have more experience etc. This is all because of the lunar
nature that we have in our psychology, all because the Moon is selfish. It only
takes for itself and unlike the sun it does not give anything to the other
planets in the solar system, all that it does is not get in their way, which is
does out of its own interests to survive.
Destiny of the Lunar
In Gnosis there are what is called lunar entities, that is
human beings or creatures that are lunar in nature. Their destiny is very sadly
the abyss or the infernal regions of nature where the lunar psychological
elements that they have are dissolved or broken down by nature.
On the other hand, there in Gnosis are the solar entities
and their destiny is entirely different. The destiny of the solar entities
which are human beings and creatures of a solar nature are the heavens or the
superior worlds or dimensions of nature.
This difference is all because of the inherent nature of the
two natures. The Moon is not freedom, it is control and imprisonment, whereas
the sun is freedom and expansion. Also the ego which is of a lunar nature
becomes polarised with evil (note, some egos are positive and some are
negative) and so nature has to stop some how the expansion of these egos
polarised with evil, so the creator created the infernal worlds, whose sole
purpose of existing is to break down these egos polarised with evil and also
the good egos.
The Sun is also an expression of the spiritual and Christic
force in the Universe, so as the Sun has a spiritual nature, being of this
nature (i.e. having a solar nature) has to take one toward a spiritual destiny
or finality.
Control
The effect of the Moon on the Earth is to set the rhythm of
life. As a planetary body it in fact stabilises the earth’s rotation and axis
of rotation. So the Lunar force exerts a certain controlling force over the
Earth and the life on it.
These aspect of the lunar force is prominent in the human
personality and also in the various psychological I’s that the human being carries
within its psyche. All the egos and eh personalities like to control things,
especially the events in a given environment, people, conversations, outcomes
all because of the selfish vested interests of the egos. If the interests where
like the interests fo the Sun, that is for everyone this aspect of controlling
would be immediately dissolved.
In conclusion here, the Lunar forces are controlling because
they are selfish. The controlling aspect protects or ensures the lunar element
(the ego or personality) in us continues to receive the fulfilment of its desires
or desire.
Relativity
The Moon is highly relative, it in fact only exists as a
Moon because of its relation to the planet Earth. If there were no planet Earth
then there would be no Moon as we know it today. In general, a moon is always
related to or dependent upon another planet. A moon in fact is defined as a
heavenly body depending on the planet it is attached to.
So it is very easy to see how the ego in us, which is
something lunar, takes the events of life, including the words of others, the
actions of others etc. in a relative way, which is, to take things as if they
are or were for me, when they may well not be meant for us.
The lunar force is a real authentic legitimate value in the
cosmos, however it is conditioned by relativity and duality, and exists
relative to other values and forces.
Does not Sacrifice
The Sun sacrifices itself continuously so as to give and
maintain life in the solar system. In fact as Master Samael describes, the Sun
use to be autoegocratic, meaning that it would only give. However, a need arose
that the autoegocratic nature of the Sun had to be modified, and it was
modified to the nature that included both giving and receiving, thus it became
trogoautoegocratic. This had to happen as Master Samael says because the Sacred
Absolute Sun was in danger of being extinguished.
The Sun gives and also receives, and this is the basis of
the transmutation. The Sun receives what it gives, but what it is received is a
higher octave version of what the sun initially gave. The Moon on the other
hand does not give of itself much less sacrifice itself for anything.
The Sun’s sacrifice return energy to it at a higher octave
that maintains it in its sacrifice for the life of the Solar System. The Moon
does not sacrifice anything because it does not need to it is not in its
nature, it would only need to sacrifice something it was to give something. But
we know from earlier sections that it does not give it only takes.
This is so easy to see in psychology as well we only like to
receive or take the easy way out. It is difficult for us to sacrifice and we
rarely do. In fact normal life does not require any sacrifices from us and that
is why normal life does not lead us into the vertical where the development of
the level of Being or the vertical line of life is to be found. So we can say
that the lunar is not vertical but solar is.
Half-True
Our false personality is currently the human being’s centre
of gravity, and furthermore this centre of gravity is qualified in Gnosis as a
lunar device. We need really our centre of gravity to be the essence, the
consciousness, the Being. But unfortunately it is the terrestrial human
personality that is our centre of gravity, leaving our consciousness to be
totally displaced. This can be easily proved, by simply by looking at the way
we perceive ourselves. We typically see ourselves as a human being, from
Europe, Australia, America etc. who has this and that age, this or that type of
upbringing, this or that degree of intelligence etc. In other words we only see
ourselves as personality; it is very rare to find someone that sees him or
herself as an essence or as consciousness. The reason why we fear death and
suffer so bitterly for those that die, is because we see them as a personality
and not as an essence or a soul or consciousness. How do you see yourself?
Originally the Kundabuffer was given to humanity to make the
physical more important in people, to sort of like bottle the consciousness of
people into the physical senses, that is to be bottled into the sensations from
the physical senses and into the perceptions and concepts of the physical
world.
Part of the reason why the very ancient Lumurians were given
the kundabuffer organ was because they did not want to live in the physical
plane, they wanted to remain as immortal in the fourth dimension of nature.
However, for the Earth to complete is movement or condensation rather into the
physical dimension all life on the Earth had to become immersed into the third
dimension. When the human layer of life on the Earth was not going to
co-operate with this something was needed to help them to co-operate with the
process of creation. This something special was the kundabuffer organ, that
essentially lead to the consciousness of the very ancient human beings being
bottled into the relativity and duality of the third dimension and of course
the third dimension as well.
The problem is that the lunar personality in us is a false
one. It is not one that is authentic and unique to our inner reality. For
example, there are so many people name John Smith and we thinking that we are
the personality, we think that we are our name, but of course we are not our
name. Many people are asked the question: “Who are you?” and they always answer
giving their name, but that in depth is not really who they are.
What we have to do is to make the ego a moon in our
psychology, that is something, which is separated from our consciousness,
leaving the consciousness to govern our psychological processes inside us, just as the Sun is the governing
principle in the solar system. So, in the end we have to organise our psyche’s
general structure to resemble that of the solar system.
There is one very important characteristic of the lunar force,
and it is that it creates a false alternative or a double that is false. Just
like the Moon doubles for the sun at night, but it is not a sun, it is a false
sun or a night time sun. But the thing is, it borrows from the sun and does not
radiate of itself because it does not have a living reality to radiate out. So
the false personality is the same in that it is a false double for our real or
true identity which is the consciousness and the Being.
Lunar psychology is based on the false personality or our
centre of gravity being in the personality, and how to best serve its
interests. And as is the opposite the solar psychology is based on the essence
being the centre of gravity, and the consciousness also being our centre of
gravity.
Another point here to compliment the title given to this
sub-section is that the ego like the moon is half true, all the reasons and
arguments of the ego are always partly true on one side and on the other side,
partly unfair or simply not true. Just as the Moon, the Moon is true in that is
by itself a real heavenly body but its life or existence is dependent on other
factors. What is true always remains, the Moon will if something happens to the
Earth, not be a Moon but just a round, grey and cratered heavenly body floating
in space.
Waters
Our behaviour is governed considerably by the state of our sexual
waters. When our sexual waters rise for example, this simple event greatly influences
our behaviour. We are more excitable and agitated and are more lustful.
It is very easy to find in life, that this increase in
energy can be taken by the ego of lust. These energies should really be taken
by the function of transmutation or the part of the Being called Peter.
Conclusion
In summary we have examined the following lunar
characteristics of our psyche:
•Not an organising force, •no interest in self-realisation, •mechanical,
•selfish and parasitic, •abysmal destiny, •controlling, •relativity, •no
sacrifice • half true and •influences the waters and life of the Earth.
In conclusion, we can clearly say that a large majority of
the characteristics of our psyche are also the characteristics of the egos that
we have and they in turn are characteristics that are shared with the Moon.
With the Moon being a manifestation of a lunar force in the cosmos we can state
without doubt that our psychology (with the ego) is Lunar. If we are to remove
the ego our psychology would change to that of the nature of the essence which
is solar.
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