Introduction
I agree with many other people that the abyss is a place
that we Gnostics don’t want to go or end up, and so we shouldn’t dwell too much
on it. I agree with that, though all in balance. To ignore it completely is I
think wrong, to think about it all the time and be scared of it is wrong as
well.
I think the wise approach is to study the abyss and the
errors and causes that can take us there so that we can avoid going there or
ending up there. However, it is also very well known that in the work on
ourselves and in the initiatic path, the initiates spend great lengths of time
there working to dissolve their defects. They obviously do not enjoy being
there but it is necessary to go there to get to know their defects, comprehend them
and eliminate them.
To Know
There is that principle that we can not get free of
something that we do not know. It is always that which we ignore or do not know
is that which traps or enslaves us.
What I have Learnt
I learnt from this study that really the breeding ground for
the abyss is here in life on level zero, in the realm between the abyss and the
heavens. We actually start our descent to the abyss here in the physical world
or we start our ascent towards the heavens here as well.
The mistakes that take us to the abyss are performed here in
the physical world and the acts that take us up are carried out here as well.
The density and heaviness of our psychology takes us down there
after we die physically.
We here of course have a very big decision to make. Should
we think, feel and act to go up or to go down. Many of us have already made
that choice – to go up. I think just understanding or knowing this is a big
help for us, because it makes us more responsible for our destiny and it makes
our time here on ground zero, the surface of the Earth much more valuable,
because our time here is the a launching pad to take off or either slip
downward.
Fear of the Abyss
The major psychological factor in the study of the abyss is
fear and the non-acceptance. The fear I believe has to be overcome. It is much
better to work on ourselves for the yearning of freedom and to be with our
Being than to work on ourselves to escape the abyss because we are scared of
it. There are points when we forget this fear and then of course we do not work
on ourselves.
No Fear of the Abyss
Really fearing the abyss is something a little illogical. Why?
Because it is almost natural or normal for us in our sleeping hypnotised state,
that is the abyss is natural or normal according to the way we are and the way
we live, in that in the abyss one experiences the egoic states that we live in
nearly all the time and are so normal to us. In the abyss we of course have to deal
with the egoic states of others which we do all the time anyway.
We have to define ourselves for the light because we may
feel very prone to accept the egoic state as natural and then just go to the
abyss. But we have to define ourselves for a different nature the nature of the
Being which is our primordial, first and only real nature. This is where
transmutation comes in because with transmutation we can change our nature to that
of the Being’s nature.
Summary - Diagrams
The following diagrams give a good summary of the structure
of the abyss or the Earth’s inferior dimensions.
End (370).
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