Tritocosmos – the Abyss Inside Man (149)

Tritocosmos

In the Gnostic study of the order of the cosmos the last order of creation is the tritocosmos or the inferior regions of nature, also called the abyss or the inferno or in Christian terms: Hell.

Orders of Worlds

According to Gnosis the worlds or levels of creation or the levels of the cosmos are organised into a series of worlds that overlap and have originally unfolded from within the Absolute.

So just taking up the level of creation of galaxies, our galaxy (the galaxy we belong to) which is the Milky Way, then there is the Solar System (Ors), then the planets, then the human being and then the tritocosmos which following the pattern of each world being inside the other (e.g. the planets inside the solar system and the solar system is inside the galaxy etc.), the tritocosmos is inside the human being.

Abyss or Atomic Infernos and the Inferior Regions of Planet Earth

This is true that we have an abyss inside of us and amazingly enough there is also a correlation with this inferno or tritocosmos inside us and the inferno or inferior region of the planet in which we belong to or are a part of – Earth.

This is because we are a part of the planet, we are an organ of the planet, and we are connected to it.

Psychological States and the Tritocosmos

The abyss is inside of ourselves and often our egos take us there through identification and we experience or live out of our own abyss and at the same time we are also connected to the abyss of the planet. So in some ways with ego identification we live here physically (our body) but psychologically we live in the abyss! Terrifying! That is why we do such crazy things at times.

The psychological states that we experience due to identification with one or another ego is the same that we can feel or experience in the abyss of the nature or the planet Earth.

So what Dante describe in the first part (“Inferno”) of his trilogy called the Divine Comedy are spot on. The suffering that the souls undergo and experience in the various regions of the abyss or inferno of the planet earth are what we experience in our own abyss when we get identified with the ego or egos that take us down there.

Conclusion

The only way to escape our own abyss and the abyss of nature is dissolve the elements that bring us down there or connect us to those two abysses.

To escape though we have to descend into our own abyss and the abyss of nature to take the light and wisdom from there and then use that light to dissolve the ego. The key is to know when to withdraw from the abyss, staying there to long is dangerous.

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How the Masters Can Help Us (148)

The Magic Lever

The magic lever that the angels, masters and Gods use to help us is love!

If we love something we can be helped. The masters, angels and Gods can use that love to help us. That is what they look for in us before they go to help us. If we have love in our heart for what we are asking for then they can mould circumstances and crystallise the help we need.

The Magic Lever is Inside Us

It is really amazing the magic lever that allows ourselves to be helped by the Gods is no other place but inside of us.

If we are wanting healing for someone, make sure they we have love in our heart for the person we want to be healed. If we are asking for help with the astral unfolding for example, make sure that you really love it, etc. If we are asking for help for the dissolution of a defect make sure we love the virtue and we love our Being and we want to see ourselves free of that defect and our Being free of that burden.

The Gods Mould, Shape and Direct our Love to Help Us

The Gods can mould, direct and channel our love in the best possible way for us. If there is love there is a door open or it can open doors.

Master Samael and Beelzebub (the love in Beelzebub’s heart was the magic lever)

Remember the way Master Samael was able to help Beelzebub in the abyss. Master Samael saw a blue light in Beelzebub’s chest (remember Beelzebub at that point was a terrible demon devoted to black magic) which was the love he had for his students of black magic. Master Samael saud that he would hug his students with his thick tail. By virtue of that love that was in Beelzebub’s heart Master Samael was moved to help him and he did in fact help him immensely.

Conclusion

Just make sure that when you want help from your Being, your Divine Mother or the masters, angels and the Gods, that you have love in your heart. It is the magic lever that makes what you are asking for to come to you! The love in your heart is a causal factor that moves circumstances and opens doors.

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How A Gnostic Should Work in the Three Factors (147)

What Should be the Main Priority of the Day?

What is a good plan I think or this is what works for me, it may not work for you but can give you an idea. Is that I make the work on myself - mainly the psychological work of dissolving the ego the main priority in my day. So that is what I do first and work more on during the day. When I feel that I have done a good enough work or dedicated a good enough time to working psychologically I start to work with lectures, talks, translations etc. for other people in Gnosis and those who are not in Gnosis.

The Factor that Pays the Most

The factor that pays the most Master Rabalu said after doing an investigation in the internal worlds is the factor to do with the death of the ego. The psychological work helps us a lot and also makes us better teachers. So I think the best is to be more inclined or to be more biased towards the work on ourselves and then the work for humanity. Because what really helps us after physical death is how much consciousness we have and how much free essence we have.

Don’t Forget Humanity and to Transmute

We can't though not forget the work and sacrifice for humanity because that is love and that gives us many merits to be able to pay karma and to be able to receive the light to go ahead in our work. Also don't forget to transmute that helps us an extraordinary amount, if we are not transmuting, all the work we do in the first and third factors gets worn away.

Conclusion

Work in balance in the three factors, not 24 hours a day on any one factor, but in balance giving always slightly more to death.

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To Surrender to Lust is Crazy! (146)

Crazy!

To surrender oneself to our lust is crazy. To surrender and to lower oneself, to expose oneself intimately to someone else that we most likely do not know is crazy. To mix oneself with someone else below our level of being is also crazy!

99% of the Time

Usually in 99% of all the cases that is what happens when we fall into lust. If all of these things do not happen at least one of them is fulfilled.

Low Level of Being

Lust is one element that really keeps our level of being low. If we observe all the people who are very lustful or a drowning in lust, just look at their level of being and you will have your answer as to where lust takes us and to what the nature of lust really is.

Lust is Deceitful

Lust is so deceitful it makes us think that we will be elevated and much better off, but from the experience of everyone that is never the case.

Lives of those with Lust

Look at the lives who work with sex, their life is not very pleasant and agreeable. Just look at those who are attracted to them, unfortunately their level of being is never so high.

Conclusion

We all actually maybe know these all these things but the thing is we do not know them deep enough we tend to give into lust, so my suggestion is to know these things in our motor centre, that is in our actions and then we will not give in.

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Time to Withdraw (145)

Introduction

This post title can be taken in the general sense or in the particular sense of the practice of the Alchemy. Therefore in this post I am going to refer to both interpretations, both the general (in life) and the particular (Alchemy and psychological work).

There is a Time to Withdraw – Beyond that there is Danger!

We have to know when it is time to withdraw, because there is always a time to withdraw or to end something or pause something. And if we don’t withdraw on time we end up breaking a certain law and that usually brings us pain and hardship or increases dramatically the potential for pain. Therefore, to know when to withdraw is really a necessary skill in life and in the esoteric path.

Sometimes we know when the right time to withdraw is and that is really useful and avoids much unnecessary difficulty. When we know when the right time to withdraw is, it is because we have learnt it from experience or we were able to work it out in the moment. Unfortunately, though when we don’t know when to withdraw, we have to learn it, and most of the time by bitter experience.

Descending into the Abyss

In the psychological work we descend into our own abyss and we may even stay there a while, but at some point we have to emerge to the light and use what we have learnt there in our own abyss to destroy the egos to dispel the darkness.

There is the danger the very real danger of staying there in our abyss for too long can be very harmful for us and strengthen the ego to such a degree that we are not able to control it.

So we have to know how to descend, to know when not to descend no further and to know when to withdraw and emerge from the darkness to the light.

Practice of Alchemy

Knowing when to withdraw in the practice in the Alchemy is critical, vital, fundamental and extraordinarily important! As soon as the practice begins, as soon as the sexual connection is made, the potential for danger is present, a failure could happen at any moment if one is not vigilant or if one loses control.

Master Samael says as that as soon as the couple practice Alchemy they descend into the abyss, into the ninth sphere. Therefore if one does not when the right time to withdraw is the sexual energy could be lost and the person then fails in the practice of Alchemy.

Knowing when to withdraw in the practice of Alchemy prevents failure. We must know how body and its limits and not be stupid thinking that our body can handle it.

Prevent, prevent, prevent any danger by withdrawing before the potential for danger rises.

Letting go of Something – Giving Up

This also very useful to know in life, the time to give up, retire or resign. It may the time to let others have a chance, it may be time to loosen our control and it may be time to give up our resistance. We have to know when this time is, and usually we know it when we start to develop a stubborn attitude.

Conclusion

In life knowing when to withdraw is very helpful and necessary. It is something that we need to know, in relationships and in the activities and events of life.

However, it is much more critical in the practice of Alchemy and also in the psychological work. In the practice of Alchemy and in the psychological work ambition or lust or greed may make the withdraw discernment line fuzzy and therefore easy to ignore or hard to see. The clearer we know it the better for us in all senses.

Ask yourself when you are engaged in any activity “do you know when the right time to withdraw is?” and see if you can discern it or find it out.

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Let Our Errors Be! (144)

There are Times when we have to Move On!

We have to let our mistakes be at times, that is let our errors be, and just move on, move on, go forward and stop remembering them. Moving forward but being very careful and vigilant not to fall back into the same error.

Forgive Ourselves

We may win forgiveness from others which can be a huge relief, but we need to forgive ourselves as well. That sometimes is something that we don’t readily give ourselves and sometimes it is something that does not even come into the picture because we think that we have done nothing wrong.

To forgive ourselves we have to win the forgiveness from ourselves. This means to do things that prove to ourselves we are beyond that mistake. The best thing to do is to work so very hard on that defect, or ego or way of thinking that made the mistake, and then we end up having balanced our internal scale. Sometimes it is to just let go of it, and stop remembering it.

There are Times when we have to Correct!

Mind you there are times where we have to focus more on correcting the mistake and cause of the mistake, and the issue of beating ourselves up does not come into the picture. When we correct eh mistake we naturally move forward.

Conclusion

In the cases where we are beating ourselves up over things and stuck in a very self-pitying rut we just have to work hard, balance our inner scale by correcting and dissolving the cause of the error and move on forgetting about the mistake - looking forward towards the heights. Continually remembering the mistake in a morbid way keeps us stuck and focussed on the same error.

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