Cravings Always Win So we need to Substitute (241)

Introduction

Experience and statistics show that craving usually wins. We can take a craving or an intense desire away which of course is good but the fights and struggles soon begin. A division forms within us, us against it – the craving.

The key is to remove the craving yet not create that division, which is done by redirecting.

Division - the Cause of Struggles

The sexual function is a legitimate function in the human being that is to be used, however the cravings and desires associated with it become a problem for the person and others. When the person starts to fulfil them how the mind or lust wants, then a problem later develops and of course the person wants to stop them and then when he or she does the division is created and the struggle starts.

Redirect

As mentioned above the key is to redirect, which to keep the function going but using it differently, using it in a way that will benefit us and others. Of course the key is that the new use must be totally fulfilling and agreeable and pleasing as the old way was, but mind you, this is very important, it must bring fulfilment in a dignifying and edifying way! Whereas, the craving’s fulfilment was temporary and undignifying and locked us into a vicious cycle of more and more.

Conclusion

Stop the craving but give yourself a very fulfilling alternative that brings you as at least much satisfaction but in a positive, dignifying and edifying way! Don’t just stop the craving, the fights will begin and the chances are you will lose.

End (241).

What happens if we are struggling in wanting to dissolve an Ego (240)

Introduction

This post is a remedy to the situation when you know that you really have to work on an ego but it is strong and you don’t want to work on it. In some way we still want what it gives or promises us.

What it Gives or What it Promises?

Before I go on, there is a very interesting point here to look at and it is are we wanting what the ego actually gives us or what the ego promises us.

When we get what the ego wants is that really what we wanted. In a majority of the cases we don’t really want what the ego gives us, because the reality of getting what the ego gives is not so happy, pleasing and agreeable as it sounded.

Usually we want what the ego promises us and that can be something that we can get truly get through the Being instead of through the ego. The reason why this is because what we may want is something that is not bad.

For example

For example we may want some sort of freedom and so lust tries to get it and then that becomes inconvenient for us and in the end it is not freedom that we get but complications and difficulties etc. However, in the beginning we wanted freedom, if we try to get it through the Being we will truly get it.

Remedy

Here is the remedy. The remedy is to search for the truth behind it. To search for the truth of what the ego wants, find the true nature of its end result and its desires.

The truth is neutral and sets us free. If we actually find the truth behind we will be happy to let the ego go anyway. Finding the truth does not cause any pain and does not bother or annoy us.

Conclusion

The key is look for the truth behind the ego, find out why it wants what it does and what is the true nature of what it wants. The truth is something neutral and does not harm the essence or us, it actually frees us and it actually it dissolves the ego.

End (240).

Trust – An Antidote when we are Insecure (239)

Introduction

Trust is an immense remedy to a situation where we feel insecure.

Trust

Trust calls upon the memory of the past actions of others. It sees that the other person really helped us and sincerely liked us, and as nothing has changed, trust says that that person still likes us very much and things will go along very well and so then, why to feel insecure and to fear that that person’s love or friendship will disappear.

Trust that Love Remains

It is not going to disappear. It will remain, if it has lasted for so long already why should it disappear just now. Thinking this and then feeling it is the key. Feeling it is the trust, and we feel it when we actually believe it. Then our fear and feelings of insecurity go away.

When we don’t find any reason for us to doubt, trust wins and our fear dissipates.

Difficult Situations

However there are situations when it is difficult to trust because the person is very erratic and unpredictable and you never know where you will end up with that person. So then what do you do? We in fact trust that they will be unpredictable again. So trusting is not going to work but we have to then trust in time and in their work and goodness as a person for the right and good in them to prevail.

Alternative when Trust in Others Fails

There is another alternative and that is to trust inside of ourselves and in our interior Divinity that we can evoke the wisdom, strength and light to be able to overcome these feelings and end up feeling alright.

Conclusion

Either way trust is a tremendous antidote to situations where we feel fear and we are unsure, uncertain and insecure.

End (239).

Our Sexuality is Sadly Outside of Ourselves (238)

Introduction

Our sexuality is totally outside of ourselves. We need to take it back for ourselves.

This is actually quite grave and is the cause of much of our problems. I say this because when our sexuality is constantly going outside of ourselves we recognise that sex is very powerful and we become driven by it, that it is we are powerfully driven to experience its sensation and take its impulses to their conclusion. We can do crazy things in order to fulfil these sexual impulses.

When our sexuality is inside of us we recognise in sex an amazing power that is ours that we can use to become powerful in life but more importantly use to die within ourselves and to awaken.

Starts and Ends with Us

Our sexuality starts and ends with us. This is hard to understand when our sexuality is outside of ourselves. We feel that we need another human being so much - but do we? Maybe our mind and emotion believes we do but I don’t know how much sexually. Well definitely our sexual energy does not because it either stays inside of us when we transmute or it goes out when we lose it and outside it is not for anyone.

Anyhow this statement means that our sexuality is already complete, meaning with or without a woman if we are a man, or with or without a man if we are woman we are still complete and sex is our power just like our blood is ours. We don’t need anyone for us to feel that as a body we are not complete. It is just something of our mind because we know that our sexual system fulfils one of its functions with another human being so our mind thinks we need someone.

If we look at a couple we will see sex is only for a very small percentage of time during the day if we take the day in the life of a couple as an example. So what about the huge other percentage of the time of the day? We are by ourselves right!

Conclusion

Basically your sexual energy is yours and you do not need someone else to feel complete or satisfied. But for a creation within yourself or outside yourself you need it though, but that is different to feeling a need to be complete or fulfilled or a certain dependence.

End (238).

In Sexuality is Our Degree of Connecting or Disconnecting (237)

Origin of the Word Sex

The word sex is thought to come from the Latin word ‘seccare’ which means to cut or to divide or in other words disconnect. The words: section, dissect, bisect, sect, sectarianism etc. all show this common meaning.

Some say that the word sex comes from the Latin ‘sexus’ which the state of gender, i.e. that of being either male or female. However, the origin ‘seccare’ is much more interesting and descriptive of eh true nature of sexuality.

Degree of Connecting or Disconnecting

In sexuality we find our capacity or ability to connect or disconnect to something. In other words with sexuality we can connect to something and by duality also disconnect from something. Sexuality has that amazing duality where it can free or enslave, heal or harm or regenerate or degenerate.

Sexuality is at the Base of Life

We are always connecting and disconnecting in life and so our life is always sexual. Any type of union implies sexuality. Normally we think of sexuality as being the intimate physical man and woman union but that limits totally our vision of sexuality.

Conclusion

We need to expand our vision of sexuality and that will honestly help us in many senses to see the true nature of sexuality and to also change our view of sexuality for the better. The more positive we start to see sexuality the more we can change our sexuality and also dissolve lust.

End (237).

One Symptom that an Ego is Dying (236)

Introduction

There are actually many symptoms to know when an ego is dying in you. One is that it is manifestations get weaker in intensity, shorter in duration and less frequent.

However, the symptom that I want to focus on here is the one of not feeling like it anymore or not having emotional force to go with the ego anymore.

Just Don’t Feel Like it!

When after much work on an ego start to not feel like getting what the ego wants us to get we are dying in that ego or rather that ego is dying in us. When you no longer feel that you want what that ego wants you are separating from that ego and in is weakening and dying in you.

Don’t Feed it

The mental part of that ego may exert pressure on your mind for you to feed that ego but don’t do it! Because it is dying, peace is coming your way soon!

Sometimes it is false

There is something to watch out for sometimes we just feel tired of the ego and we don’t feel like getting what the ego wants emotionally speaking. So for it to correspond to a true symptom of death we have to wait, because time will reveal if that ego is really dying or not. If we were just tired, then as soon as we are rested the ego will come back again with force.

Conclusion

Watch out for this symptom and if you observe this symptom in yourself, wait a while to verify that it is true and don’t feed that ego anymore. Use your will to cooperate with the death just produced inside you.

Also if you honestly feel that what the wants si something that deep down you do not want and do not find comforting or useful or satisfying at all then you are dying. Hip Hip Hooray! Right!

End (236).

What is Your PPP? (235)

Introduction

You know it is really fundamental that you know your PPP! To know it is a very big part of self-knowledge. It actually reveals to us the central key of our egotistical nature or structure. If we know it and work over it we can discover a lot of about ourselves.

When you Know it!

When you know what your PPP is you know just one word. If you can’t tell someone what your PPP is in just one word then frankly, you do don’t know it what it is!

When you say something like “it has to be” or “it must be” you do not know it or rather your consciousness has not verified it as yet.

Conclusion

My sincere advice is to search for it because it will give you much light about your karma and your life’s karmic circumstances and the nature of your psychology.

End (235).

Discerning Right from Wrong (234)

Introduction

This is such an important skill in life and in the path. It seems that we are always learning about what is right and what is wrong and when we have made a mistake it is mostly because we didn’t know that it was wrong or would bring harmful or inconvenient consequences.

We really have to have a way to work out if something is wrong or right if our intuition or consciousness or conscience is not telling or even hinting at anything.

How to Discern Right from Wrong

What I am going to do here is give you a system or a technique that will help to discern right from wrong.

Basically the technique is based on the wisdom that “every tree is known by its fruit”. In other words something that is wrong is known by its end result or consequences.

So to know right from wrong we have to project into the future to see the consequences and end results.

Key – Look for the End Results!

So here is the key, if you want to know whether something is wrong or right use cause and effect to see the chain of events that will unfold and then gauge whether these events will be convenient for you and for others.

If you want to know if a thought is right or wrong do the same, see how the thought becomes an emotion and how the emotion becomes and action and the action generates events and circumstances and reactions and more actions and so on and so on. Will they be convenient for you and others?

Conclusion

Apply these key whenever you are in doubt, that is whenever your conscience or intuition or consciousness is not speaking to you loud or clear or is not even giving the slightest hint.

Well if you get it wrong then you know already for next time and tell as many other people as you can so that they know as well.

End (234).

Elements of a Gnostic Retreat (233)

Introduction

This post is a follow of up of a previous post where it was promised that several points regarding a Gnostic retreat would be touched upon. This post expands upon the first point given in that previous post, namely: “Elements of a retreat”.

Basic Elements

A retreat consists of four basic elements. They are: attendees, goal, activities, leader/organizer and venue. The goal of the retreat really determines those who attend and also governs the activities that will be conducted in the retreat. The goal may even select the leader, because some leaders may or may not be able to guide attendees to achieve the retreat’s goal.

Retreat Goal

Fundamental Goal

Fundamentally the goal of a retreat is to create a special environment away from our normal busy and distracting life. Mind you our life may not be that busy or that full of distractions but a retreat usually consists in creating an environment that is free of many of life’s elements such as noise, impressions, media, computers, TV, family, friends, work, etc.

The goal is that with this special environment having been created, the people attending the retreat will be able to concentrate and focus on the activities of the retreat without distraction. Such an environment is conducive to learning and practicing, and very importantly, there in this special environment is freedom for a retreat attendee to be able to dedicate a larger than normal block of time to the retreat activities.

A retreat is also a subtraction from life, or a withdrawal from the occupations, distractions and impressions of life so to be able to dedicate more time to one’s spiritual practices or to other very specific practices.

People may even come to a retreat having their own goal, and that goal may blend with the goal of the retreat or it may be something very different. On the whole though, people attending a retreat understand that they come to a retreat to be isolated from their ordinary life so to be able to dedicate more time to their spiritual work.

Specific Goal

A retreat of course is usually organized due to the needs of the attendees, so a retreat may have a gaol that addresses the needs of the attendees. The common thing is that a retreat has as a goal a theme of study, very few retreats have as a goal some practical level of achievement.

Activities

The activities consist essentially of talks and practices that have been designed by the leader or organizer to take the attendees towards achieving the goal of the retreat.

Mind you some retreats may well have a very specific goal but the trend is it seems, that retreats don’t have a specific goal, only a promise to expand upon a specific theme. For the retreats that have a specific goal the activities will be very specific, so for example if the goal of the retreat is to go to the astral then the retreat’s activities will essentially be astral practices and talks related about that objective.

Some retreats may not have a goal and so naturally the activities involved are a selection of activities that may be related to one another, or may not be.

Leader/Organizer

A leader or at least an organizer is one that brings all the attendees together and is responsible for their well-being during the retreat. In the best case he or she may even be responsible for the retreat attendees’ progress during the retreat.

The most important aspect of the leader or organiser is that he or she has eh knowledge and force to drive the retreat attendees towards the retreat’s goal.

Usually the organizer leads a majority of the activities and is in charge of all the retreat’s logistics.

Venue

The venue must be carefully chosen so that it fits in with the goals of the retreat. It must be quiet, free of distractions and provide retreat attendees with the possibilities to fulfil all their immediate needs. The venue should also be clean and safe and have a positive atmosphere. A spiritual retreat is ideal, though it does not have to be one as such as long as it is quiet, peaceful, free of distractions and attendees are safe and generally feel well.

It must also not be too expensive affordable at least and have facilities that cater for the retreat’s activities.

Conclusion

So any retreat must have these four basic elements. If one of them is missing, just depending on which one is missing the retreat may lose its effectiveness.

End (233).

Finding Your Principal Psychological Profile (232)

Introduction

It is the belief of the person writing this post that one’s PPP or principal psychological profile can be found in less time than the prescribed five years. This can be done we claim by paying very careful attention to the indications that we will present in this post.

What do you Suspect it is?

First of all what do you suspect your PPP is? Ask yourself that question and come up with a clear answer.

Your answer will obviously be one of the strongest egos that you have. Be open though to later discover that what you first thought was our PPP may not actually turn out to be your PPP.

One of the Three Strongest Egos

In most cases the PPP in a person is one of the three strongest egos, which Master Samael says are pride, anger and lust.

We can rule out anger because it is an effect ego, that is it works to protect the interests of any ego, and it never comes alone. It can work in conjunction with pride, lust, fear, jealousy, envy, greed, ambition you name it.

With anger out of the picture that leaves us with pride and lust. So have a look at your pride and your lust.

The following two paragraphs are the areas that you must look into to be able to discover which ego is your PPP, pride or lust. In most cases the definite factor is the character or nature of your internal processes.

External Life Events

Look at all the patterns in the egoic manifestations in your life. Look at your major sufferings, difficulties and problems. What ego is the major player in them. What is the nature of those events and the egoic suffering or manifestations in those events. What ego caused it all? What ego is behind your major shortcomings and failures in life? What ego was behind the major decisions of your life? What ego has been behind you feeling great and happy in your life?

If after all these questions you have identified one ego then you are well on your way to discovering for sure your PPP. All you need to do is to follow the next step below to confirm.

Nature of Your Internal Processes

So now all you need to do now is to look honestly into your psychological processes and observe their content and their nature or flavour. The PPP comes out exceedingly in the thoughts we have about others.

Pride

If our PPP is pride we will always be concerned with better or less in relation to others, always about a more and less comparison and always about who is wrong and who is right, always about being hurt and scrambling to be on top of others, always about defense and justification, fair and not fair. Most of the time pride brings anger and we dislike people and are very critical towards people and bear considerable ill will towards them. If these factors or observations are what or close to what you see in the majority of your psychological processes then that is it your PPP is pride.

Note, if your PPP is pride lust may be strong in you and cause you trouble but it is an ego that in you comes and goes, and if you do have lust in your human machine pride will come to the party to heavily influence it.

Lust

So lust is about desire, sensations, pleasure, having, not having and of course sex. So if these factors appear a lot in your internal processes then of course your PPP is lust. Lust makes us concerned about form and draws us to materialism; it basically brings greed, laziness and gluttony with it rather than anger and pride. Lust brings also jealousy and attachment and we can angry due to those factors basically because they threaten the possibility of lust’s pleasure. Lust is also about love, wanting love selfishly.

So if these factors above are quite commonly observed in your internal processes and pride is not so much there as described in the previous section then lust is your PPP.

Conclusion

So it is my sincerest wish that these paragraphs have helped you to discover what your PPP is. I have written this post to help anyone who is interested to discover their PPP. To know your PPP is to come to better understand your psychology and past. But most importantly is its impact on your future, with this very important piece of self-knowledge you will be able to die in a more accelerated rate and avoid the very painful suffering of the past. You will pay off heaps of karma too! Go for it!!!

End (232).

Gnostic Retreats – A Complete Look (231)

Introduction

I am writing this post as a conclusion to effort that I have been making to understand the topic of retreats. I plan to extend the writing divide this understanding over a posts.

The Points

The points that I plan to touch on are the following:

•          Elements of a retreat
•          Why of a retreat
•          Benefits of a retreat
•          Shortcomings of a retreat
•          Sacrifice in a Retreat
•          Participants of a retreat
•          Leaders of a retreat
•          Effectiveness of a retreat
•          Retreat length
•          Three dimensions of a retreat
•          Conclusion – go or don’t go?

Conclusion

Hang on for the next couple of posts to read and I hope use what you read to become more conscious about what a Gnostic retreat and be in a better or more conscious position to decide upon going to a retreat.

End (230).

Master Samael’s Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) (230)

Introduction

This post in particular will explore the PPP of Master Samael. We don’t know what it was for sure but we can infer something about it.

He Never said What it was!

Well we do not know for sure what Master Samael’s PPP was because he never anywhere that we know of expressed it. But there are certain things that he says about his work and past that lead us to make a very educated guess.

We Think it was Lust

The real fact is that Master Samael dissolved his PPP - whatever ego or characteristic it was. Anyway we think that it was lust for these main reasons.

Reason 1

The first reason is that Master Samael said that while he was Julius Ceasar he still had some initiations from Egypt, however while being Julius Ceasar he lost all of them, in other words he fell and he said that he fell by giving into a sexual temptation. So lust was what caused him to fall back in those ancient Roman times.

He was an initiate however he was not that far along the path that he had dissolved the ego. He had some serpents raised but not the ego eliminated.

Reason 2

Master Samael also mentioned that he fell at the beginning of this race due to a matter related to abusing a certain magical key, that was related to the relationship between man and woman.

Reason 3

He also mentions that during his fifth initiation of major mysteries Lust gave him tremendous trouble where he could not eliminate it and it was only with the help of the Divine Law that he could be eliminated from him. The PP can be very like that, it is so big that it is almost beyond us.

Reason 4

Master Samael did have anger and pride, and he also had a strong jealousy that he openly confessed. Jealousy is usually strongly related with lust. He also mentioned that his lust was attracted to anything female, even a stick with a skirt on it. So he had a strong lust from those accounts leading us to believe that his PPP could have been lust, as the PPP is typically very strong and predominant in a person’s life and psychology.

Conclusion

The marvellous thing about Master Samael is that he eliminated all of it. So we can use his example to inspire us to dissolve the PPP. He suffered greatly eliminating it, and so we will but the message is that it can be done and so we can do it also. Very importantly is that from all these details that he revealed about his life we can use them wisely to determine if our PPP is lust or not. His help has in this regard been immense!

End (230).

Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) of Pride (229)

Introduction

As mentioned in the previous post, this post will be dedicated to describing some more characteristics of the PPP. In particular this post will concentrate on describing what it is like to have Pride as the PPP.

Pride as Your PPP

What I would like to achieve with this post is to describe how one’s psychology is and life is having the pride as the PPP. My hope is that with this description it will help you to either rule out that your PPP is pride or either set you on a course to discovering and confirming that your PPP is pride.

What is it Like to have Pride as a PPP?

If your PPP is pride then the majority of your psychological processes will be taken up with envy, resentment, offences – giving and receiving, remembering insults, arguing, mental and verbal protesting, being worried about being wrong, feeling hurt, being right, fantasies of glory and heroism, fantasies of being right and loved by everyone, feeling important, feeling devastated by no one loving you, fear of embarrassment, fear to learn what others think of you, basically always being hurt and retaliating with responses that express the same value.

Thinking people are against you and then being against others and there is always a strong element of friction, opposition, resistance and conflict in our minds and in our relations with others.

Basically what causes a person much trouble when they pride as their PPP is relativity, where differences in treatment and being less or more really upset the person. The person who has pride as their PPP is very sensitive to relativity. The slightest detail can provoke one’s pride and upset them.

Conclusion

If a person’s PPP is pride then unfortunately most of their psychological life will basically be taken up by protesting against relativity that goes against them (less than others) and feeling exaggeratedly great when relativity is in their favour (i.e. better or more than others).

End (229).

Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) & the Fall (228)

Introduction

As mentioned in the previous post, this post will be dedicated to describing some more characteristics of the PPP. In particular this post will concentrate on the characteristic that the PPP is the main reason as to why we fell spiritually speaking in the past. The PPP is the one that is always behind our fall.

PPP and the Spiritual Fall

We say here in Gnosis that the PPP is the one that has always been there behind each and every one of our past spiritual falls. By this, I do not mean losing the sexual energy during some sort of sexual activity, but rather when we fell from the illuminated, one with our interior state Divinity state and fell in the physical world where much crying and gnashing of teeth is heard.

The factor Behind that fall is the P.P.P it is the one that causes all our falls, which implies that the P.P.P is a very painful ego that carries much karma and is the strongest one and is also one that is 100% rebellious and very hypnotic.

The PPP by recurrence will try to make you fall again. If one fell because of lust good chances are that the PPP is lust, however if a person fell because of betraying the white lodge or a Guru or a Master or profaned the teachings or was disobedient due to pride then most likely the PPP of te person is pride, especially if they fell because of power.

Conclusion

The PPP is very powerful because it is the one that made it fail. This is certainly reason enough to go and work on it to avoid this recurrence or pattern actually. The PPP is very karmic and very powerful.

End (228).

Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) - Main Structure of Psychology (227)

Introduction

As mentioned in the previous post, this post will be dedicated to describing some more characteristics of the PPP. In particular this post will concentrate on the characteristic that the PPP is the main framework of our egoic structure and impregnates or participates of all or nearly all our egoic manifestations.

Participates of all Our Egoic Manifestations

So then the PPP is the foundation of our personality, a point we will examine later on, but back to the point our PPP can be found in every well nearly every manifestation of our egos.

To verify this we have to really know our PPP and go deep into our egoic manifestations and search for it. For example if a person’s PPP is Pride which is a very common one, such a person will be able to see Pride in his or her egoic manifestations and this is quite easy to see actually, because there is much pride in anger, envy, jealousy, lust, fear, greed, ambition and even laziness. Pride is a great combiner ego, that is it combines itself well with almost any ego.

Pride is behind so many of our egoic reactions; actually it is behind a lot of anger, envy and jealousy. Pride colours the way these other egos act, and in fact the relativity that Pride is so characteristic of, influences greatly the processes of the other egos and the way they act. Pride makes us go for the best or the better, so in that what it specifically influences our egoic movements and selection processes.

Just imagine what those other egos would be like in you if your Pride were to be taken away. They would be baseless wouldn’t they. So there you go, you can verify this point directly for yourself.

Conclusion

When you find your PPP or  at least suspect your PPP for it to truly be your PPP it has to participate in nearly all of your egoic manifestations. To counteract our PPP will need to apply massive amounts of good will within our intimate psychological processes and in our life and actions.

End (227).

Characteristic of the Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) (226)

Introduction

As mentioned in the previous post, this post will be dedicated to describing some more characteristics of the PPP.

Characteristic 1

One very important characteristic of the PPP is that it is the one that sets up a great majority all of our difficult moments in life. It actually sets up the nature and circumstances of the events that make our life difficult. The PPP is responsible for the major egoic events in our life, that is its main characteristic!

Characteristic 2

The PPP sets up a certain egoic pattern in our life. We will mostly decide or do things because of this ego. It is behind most of our big decisions in life and it is the one that creates circumstances in our life for it to manifest. Remember it can do this because it is a causal ‘I’, meaning that it has access to our causal world and therefore it can generate causes, well actually causes that go to benefit this ego or go to fulfil the aim of this ego.

Verify Characteristic 1

To verify this characteristic, just look at all the sad moments in your life and see what their nature was, what were those events about?

While you are there go into the psychology of all of your egoic manifestations during those events. Your egoic manifestations were your thoughts, feelings and actions in those moments, so see what flavour they had.

Verify Characteristic 2

Recall the major decisions in your life and then and then see what egoic factor was behind them if there was an egoic factor behind it.

Try and identify a pattern of circumstances in your life, especially in relationships. See if there is a patterns and what ego is behind it, or what ego always plays a leading role in those patterned set of events and circumstances.

Conclusion

So then the PPP is behind our major painful life events, behind our failures, sufferings and tribulations. It also sets up a pattern that constantly keeps itself fed through the events and circumstances of the same nature.

End (226).

An Introduction the Principal Psychological Profile (PPP) (225)

Introduction

This post among many more to come about the Principal Psychological Profile, commonly known as the PPP describes what the PPP is.

What is the Principal Psychological Profile?

The principal psychological profile or chief characteristic is a part of our psychology. As the name suggests it is a very important part, actually it is the predominant part. It is the part that colours our psychology, it is the part that makes up our psychology and it is the part that forms the nature of our egoic psychology.

The PPP is Ever-Present

The PPP is something that is present in virtually every one of our psychological processes. It is the one that sets the mood to our everyday egoic psychology and it is one that sets the backdrop to our psychology.

It is something that stays more than goes, other egos come and go but the PPP is mostly always there forming the nature of our egoic psychology and it is so natural that we don’t know that it is there and we don’t suspect that it is there. That is why it is so hard to find out what it is when we decide to look for it. We often overlook it and think that it is lust, fear or anger because they can be very intense in most people, if an ego comes and goes then it is not the PPP, the PPP stays more then comes and goes.

Egoic Structure

Our egoic psychology certainly has a structure it is not an ad hoc random mess it has a structure and centre to that structure is the PPP. The PPP is the central framework of that structure and if our egoic structure were a tree it would be the trunk of the tree and the branches would be the egos, the seven capital egos and the leaves would be the many facets.

Behind our Fall

The PPP is behind our esoteric or spiritual fall and it is the one that provoked our fall, so in it is a lot of karma and behind it are certain causal factors.

5 Years of Work

Master Samael said that it takes a person 5 years of observation and work to discover and concretely confirm the existence and specific identity of ones’ PPP.

50% of Our Egoic Structure

Master Samael said that if one was able to dissolve their PPP they indeed would have done 50% of the work required to fully dissolve all of their egoic structure.

In the Next Post

In the post following this one, we will talk about some more characteristics of the PPP and this will lead us onto some of the ways that we can discover it in ourselves. We will following this talk about how we can work on so to weaken it.

Conclusion

I think that I could conclude this psost by saying that to accelerate the dissolution of one’s egoic structure knowing one’s PPP is crucial. If we work on it we will inadvertedly weaken all the other egos. You know if we follow Dante’s advice from the second book of his Divine Comedy we will see that Pride could well be a candidate to be a PPP as he described that when pride was overcome/dissolved in the first terrace of the island of purgatory, the six remaining P’s (‘P’ standing for peccatum, sin in Latin) marked on his forehead, where each P stood for a capital sin were weakened.

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One Way to Appreciate Others (224)

Introduction

There may be many ways to appreciate others and one of them is to learn from others, and when we learn from them we come to appreciate them more and they are happy to have helped us. This post is about one way that you can learn from others.

Everyone Has Certain Gifts

Everyone has certain gifts in life. Without exception everyone is good at something. Everyone has a good to excellent understanding of something in life that we do not have. That is something wonderful, that is why we have a multiplicity in life, so that all the gifts and talents can be shared amongst all of us, and all of us together produce all the wisdom in creation.

These gifts may come from life’s experiences, past lives and some their own innate inner nature and understanding. That is from their Being or Monad or Essence.

Find their Gifts

One way to appreciate others is to learn from their gifts, but before we can do that we have to find their gifts, find what they are excellent at. Usually they are good at what they like or love doing.

People can be good at hobbies, crafts, their job, teaching, speaking, writing, organising things, travelling, running, managing people, sports you name it. A good way to start to find their gifts is to find about their interests.

Observe then in Action

Even if we don’t know their gifts we can observe them to help ourselves find out, or just by observing them we can learn a lot as well. But to observe them we have to get in them action while they are working or dealing with people.

You know we can always learn from people in the bad and in the good.

Ask them to Teach You

If we can’t find out what a person’s gifts are we have to ask them what their gifts are or what they are good at or what they really love doing. What they love doing they will know a lot about. And if what they are good at is something that you lack or is something that you want to know about or develop in you then ask them straight out to teach you.

Conclusion

To learn something from someone else is wonderful and it is so much easier than learning by ourselves. It is also a lot quicker. It will also help us to appreciate others and it will open our mind to the fact that everyone has their gifts and things that they can pass on and teach and we also help them because by teaching us or passing on what they have learnt they make their life’s experiences and learnings useful.

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Love as the Only Solution/Escape (223)

Introduction

Sometimes we struggle immensely in life over why we are not loved by people in general, and above all by people who are ‘meant’ to love us, such as partners, spouses, children, family and friends. Truly we can really suffer, from bouts of disappointment like depression to bouts of intense anger and ill-will. You know what the solution or the way to get out of such a terrible rut is to love, forget about receiving love and give love. This post explains way this is the best option all of the time.

Receiving Love

Receiving love can be really great but not so great when it stops or drops in frequency, intensity, duration and quality. We often start to think that something is wrong and that the person does not love us anymore or that we have done something for the person to not love us or that we are not good enough which is one of the worst emotions we can feel.

The Art of Receiving Love

There is a way to receive love from others and we have to know it. We have to teach ourselves actually how to receive and give love. However, because this section is about receiving love, we need to find a way to receive love that does not lead to pain later on, and curiously when we start to feel pain we start to give pain out.

The way to receive love is to receive it with an open mind and heart and with gratitude but never becoming dependent on it. Never to start to see that we only exist or we are only valid when we receive love from others. If the perception of ourselves or our self-valuation or self-worth is based on or is referenced to or is relative to the amount, quality, duration and intensity of love received then we are really going to suffer. Why you may ask, well the answer is simple. It is because we can not control the love others give us (we try though but that does not really work for us) and so there will always be times when we don’t receive love and or we receive less love than before and therefore we will feel pain, of course if we still think and feel in the same old way that receiving love is the only reason for our existence.

Only Receiving Brings Suffering

We suffer because we are very one sided we only want to receive and maybe the reason why we are not receiving any love is due to karma, that is we have not given out love. Karma manifesting as the pain we feel, it is there to teach us, that is to teach us that we need to love too.

Controlling Love

Basically the only way you can control the amount of love you receive is to give lots of love yourself. We can always control how much love we give, but to control how much others give us is not good at all. It always leads us into trouble. We actually end up ruining that which we love and want love from. You know sometimes when something is in our heart we can not stop loving it, put whatever you want to love in your heart, that is a key that never fails. Once something is in your heart you will never stop loving it.

Giving Love

When we are unhappy, disappointed and we are not receiving love, we actually in our mind go against the other person and we don’t think very highly of them at all. We are disliking them actually, just observe that the next time you feel that you are not receiving love. We become less generous, less, friendly and less open and good willed toward them. We are not loving them in our mind and heart and how can we expect them realistically speaking to love us back or to love us more when we are not loving them. That is crazy but we actually do think and feel that way. But if we are to give love we will get it back and if you open your mind and heart others will be like that towards us too.

The Solution

The solution is to give love and if you do it you will see how magically things change and turn around. Basically stop being demanding and give love, we when we do that feel much better, because we are giving love and we are polarising ourselves with love and so we feel love and when we feel love we are in love and giving, receiving all melt in together into the one state of love.

A limit

Of course though there is a limit and there it is if the person does not love you back and mistreats and disrespects the honest love that you give them, then we need to drop our love back a notch or two. That is easy to do if we are not dependent on the other person. That is why so many people stay with partners that are abusive, because they are dependent on them and as soon as that dependence finishes or abates the one getting abused feels free to leave.

You know we can only really love consciously when we are not attached or dependent. We have to discern when this limit or line has been crossed, but don’t worry we will know it naturally, almost instinctively in fact.

Conclusion

The main key here is to take away any ill-will in your mind and heart and open up your mind and heart to the person and give love. Depart from yourself, stop being worried about how much love you are receiving and give love instead, and by the law of cause and effect you will receive it. Just wanting and waiting to receive love will not bring it to you! You must also understand that another person’s love does not make you complete, you are already complete, because even if that person does not love you nothing in you stops working, your life goes on, your heart still beats and you still have your inner divinity within you loving you and sending you its life force.

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