Gnostic Wisdom

We are mixture when we work on the ego. In very practical terms it is really hard most of the time to do a practice with the essence there, the whole time. If we focus and are sincere and even though we use the mind to question, investigate, we touch the essence and it does give us insight for a few seconds and then it disappears and gives a flash and then nothing and then another flash. I asked my marvellous missionary this question and he said that he just worked, with the mind, the ego, the essence all together and somehow he got results. I think the sincere will and persistence is the big antidote that makes the good results or the consciousness to filter out our efforts which are a mixture of efforts from the mind, the essence and the ego etc. End (1234).

It’s Over When… You know a psychological gymnasium or a rough patch (karmic) is finally really over when we feel grateful for it, and we are stronger, wiser, more energetic and we feel renewed and more positive. You may even feel freer, and when you think of the person or persons involved, you say and feel a quiet thank you to them, even if they treated you harshly. When we still feel scared, or resentful it is not really over. What do you reckon? End (5371).

What’s the Other Half Then? The Remedy! Unbalanced and Guilty I think that to give someone an ear bashing without giving a remedy is not so good. To me it is unbalanced and tips towards the unfair side of things, and no wonder why people get resentful with us when we give them an ear bashing without a remedy. To give a remedy is balance, it is the complete story, and it is fairer. People may give others an ear bashing because they want to impress upon the receiver, the importance of what they are doing wrong or not doing etc. This can be good as it gets the person to think, and it is even better if it is accompanied with a remedy. Giving a remedy will also stop you from feeling guilty later in case you do. End (1232).

Introduction Everyone without exception feels happy when their day is inclined towards change for the better. If you are a Gnostic every Gnostic is happy really when they die in something, A day inclined towards one’s own psychological change is a good day. Much Better It is much better to seek that happiness over the fleeting and self-deceiving happiness of saying: “tomorrow”, “too busy”, “this is more important” etc. What would you rather feel the happiness of having died in something and closing the day with a smile and a sigh of relief or feeling lust lustre and regret? End (1231).

It is said that Athena, the Goddess of wisdom was born from within the head of Zeus. After suffering from an intense head ache, a  large cleft opened in Zues' head and Athena emerged fully grown and battle ready. This says something about wisdom in that, wisdom has a divine origin and has its centre of gravity in the first of the three primary forces (Zeus), that is in the Father. This makes sense as the intellectual centre is the receptacle of the first primary force. Wisdom in many instances certainly comprises a strong intellectual component. Her Implements The shield of Athena or Minerva displays the decapitated head of Medusa. This is a direct reference to mystical death, psychological death or to the death of the myself. This may also tell us that mystical death protects us from danger, as it always does and that it, is the major levering point of wisdom and justice. One can not have justice or wisdom without mystical death. One is defenceless befor...

I have experienced this to satiation, and I'm sure you have too, that dealing out pain to anyone, whoever, wherever and for whatever reason is bad business, it comes back and it hurts just as it hurt others! We sometimes think hurting others who are not in Gnosis does not matter! But how wrong this is! That pain comes back, and mostly through the people in Gnosis! Who else can cause us pain, but teh people who we hold dearly. They may be in Gnosis or they may not be but for sure the pain we deal out comes back.  The pain we deal out knowlingly comes back as an intensely painful lesson to not do the same next time and the pain that we deal out unknowingly comes back as a lesson but not as intense. It has more of a becoming aware quality to it where as the pain that we deal out knowingly comes back intensely with a kind of resistance, a protest, with a feeling of debt of unfair - but it is fair! End (1229).

Introduction I personally think that to understand this point is so very practical and handy for our life, especially when it comes to human relations. Really? We feel hurt usually when we are rejected right? How many times have we been rejected? Many right? We are going to still get rejected right? It is not going to stop right? We will be rejected in the future guaranteed! But the pain can certainly stop!  Personally I am committed to that, transforming the uncomfortable feelings that the ego feels due to a lack of understanding and remembering of the Being.  Physical and Psychological Truths to Understand in Relation to Rejection The physical and psychological truths are that none of us are inside of another person. None of us are fused into another person. We are two separate bodies and what we have of others inside of us are concepts, mental representations and values, and exactly the same thing for others in relation to us.  So when s...

Many times, thank goodness, the chances for psychological death, small or large, come to us! Sometimes they are obvious, like an insult from an offender, sometimes they are subtle. The more aware we are the more we see and sense these opportunities. If it happens we may be sitting idle and want to work on ourselves, we have to hunt down the missed opportunities or the unworked events of the past. Chase down death if it doesn't knock on your door. Look for the pain of the past and there it won't be long before you'll have to stop your mind from raving on in anger! End (1227).

Usually the weekend is a two day stint with less work being done on ourselves, well for me anyway. Why not make an effort to make the weekend we are living a different weekend. If our weekends are usually not very enjoyable, or are low in the awareness of ourselves then why not die in something small at the very least within our psyche, to bring to our life something new, even if it is just a small detail that takes up 35 seconds of our life from time to time! With the transformation of that small detail, that 35 seconds will now be 35 seconds of freedom instead of 35 seconds of pain. Psychological death begins in the intellectual centre. Psychological death brings the new life into our psychology! End (1226)

Introduction We may often because it is easier just focus on affirming the value opposite to the ego. This is good and helps enormously! Draw Up the Courage to Investigate! However, we can consciously ignore the investigation because it hurts. But if we can gather the courage and investigate we can find out why the ego is not trusting or not transmuting or not loving or not sharing etc., or in general terms, why the ego is not co-operating with the value. We can find its reasons as to why it does not want to co-operate with the virtue. Valuable Reward This is powerful and precious knowledge and helps us to affirm the virtue or value more effectively. This knowledge adds to our power of affirming the virtue or value of the Being that acts as an antidote to this ego. End (1225).

Basically Because Basically because there is a part in us that does not want to believe in what the conscious parts of us are saying. The conscious parts in us know that there is little chance of something going wrong and if it does we can handle it, but the essence trapped in the ego of fear distrusts the messages from the conscious parts! Fear Drops When The fear drops completely when the trapped essence in fear understands the message from the conscious parts of ourselves. The trapped essence in fear is like a person or a child that really speaks out inside of us and says things in a sincerely worried way such as: “really, unexpectedly things go wrong, there is always the possibility of things going wrong, they have before, I am worried”. The essence trapped in the bottle of fear is the one that distrusts. Fear Distrusts It feels this way because of its past karma. Because things have gone wrong unexpe...

Introduction Our egos affect our isolated and autonomous parts of our Being. They are autonomous and isolated but not that much, because the egos that we have limit them, block them, control them, subdue them etc. In general, our egos prevent them from acting freely. Certain Egos for Certain Parts of the Being Certain egos in us subdue certain parts of our Being. For example, the egos of violence and anger subdue the parts of the Being related to tranquillity, sweetness, intelligence etc. The egos of lust subdue the part of the Being related to chastity which is transmutation etc. The egos of Pride subdue the parts of the Being related to humility, co-operation etc. Need to be Free so to Exercise their Function Correctly These parts of the Being really need to be free so that they can exercise their function freely and correctly. While they are being subdued they exercise their function incorrectly and conditiona...

Introduction Here is a detail that might be useful to the P.P.P Hunters out there. Just in case P.P.P stands for Principal Psychological Profile. Master Samael says that it constitutes 50% of our psychological work and it is our major characteristic that impregnates virtually all of our psychology. P.P.P as All the Egos My marvellous missionary said last night that there will come a time in one’s path that one will see one’s P.P.P as lust, as fear, as greed, as ambition, as laziness, as gluttony, as whatever other egos we still have. The P.P.P is the factor that is eliminated last and is the one that is behind all the other egos. If one looks carefully and very deeply into his or her egos one will find that characteristic there as the major hidden spring board or hidden motivation behind its desires. For example, if Pride is your P.P.P, no doubt you will find deep within every ego a rebellion, a resistance and co...

Introduction Recently there have been some posts about pain, where some points to do with pain, the liberation of pain and the psychology of pain were presented. We can take all of those points and intelligently invert them to end up with a set of valid points (truths) to do with pleasure. This post is about doing exactly that. The Pain Points Here are the points to do with pain. Point 1:                Comes from Within not from Without Point 2:                Essentially Emotional Point 3:                About Values and their Use Point 4:                Loss of a Value Point 5:    ...

Come on! Tell Me What You Want from Life! What you want is happiness, contentment, fulfilment, success, be in control, money (you don’t want money really – you want the values it buys, such as: security), be erudite, be respected, be loved, be appreciated, etc. Right? That is what people more or less want from life, and that is why they go head first into life right? Come on! Have you Ever Thought that is what the work Gives You? The work gives you all of these things right now. These things ins a much superior octave are alive right now in your essence. Real joy is of the essence and is the real superior octave to pleasure! In Time or Out of Time Life gives you those things in time, but the work gives you those things permanently! To get success in life you have to work and work etc. and in time you get it! Then old age comes and you are too tired to enjoy it or even remember what you felt it meant. ...

Bucket List There is the well known bucket list, which is a list of all the things you want to do in life before you ‘kick the bucket’ (die physically). The Inverse Bucket List The inverse bucket list is everything that you need to do to not stay alive psychologically (die psychologically). The work is like the inverse of many values and reference points in normal human psychology! Write your Inverse Bucket List For me it has been very helpful to write an inverse bucket list. Because if you don’t have a plan it is harder to focus your efforts and time, and life is basically about time and effort. So a plan helps to focus your life. Dynamic An inverse bucket list is a list of all that you need to do to die psychologically and of course it will change from week to week, month to month or year to year as we work. It is a dynamic list which is the inverse to the normal bucket list which is rather static. ...

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Everything Relates Good relationships between ourselves and something else are what bring us good results. So then, in relation to sexuality, it is the same, we should relate well to our own sexual energy and to the value of sexuality. These are the two fundamental factors to do with that question or conundrum of sex. Sexual Energy Sexual energy is our raw sexual energy that accumulates and can be transmuted. This energy is behind many natural impulses and is the key ingredient of sexuality. It takes us to examine sexuality. Sexuality Sexuality on the simplest level is our level of understanding in regards to our sexual conduct with another human being of the opposite sex. The Problem of the Egos of Sexuality Sexuality has its certain principles or laws. For example, it is our cosmic duty to transmute our sexual energy! The psychological processes of these egos of sexuality (lust etc.) can certainly interfere with the recognition or awareness of the rule...

Source This list of 48 Laws come from a book in Spanish written by Oscar Uzcategui, V.M Kwen Khan, titled “El Hombre las Leyes y el Absoluto” or “Man, Laws and the Absolute”. Master Samael to the best of my knowledge didn’t leave us with a specific list of the 48 laws that govern the order of creation known as the Microcosmos or 'man' (human being). These 48 laws are said to govern the Microcosmos, that is these 48 laws are present within the human being and they are also the laws that govern human beings here in the physical world on our beloved planet Earth.  In other worlds these laws are both inside and outside of human beings. That is why it was written at the temple to the Oracle of Delphi: "Oh man know thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods." This list I think is a good one and an interesting one. Being honest, many of the entries make sense according to my knowledge (limited) of the Gnostic doctrine and there a few (2 ...

Everything we Have Nearly All Comes from Her If we look at it closely, nearly everything we have comes from Mother Nature. The matter of our body, our clothing, our food, our shelter... Even the great artists and scientists could not have risen to greatness if it weren’t for the materials provided by mother nature. What is an artist, a person who creates sculptures, a scientist, a leader, a politician, a computer programmer, a writer, a philosopher, a saint, a priest, etc. without the material given to us by mother nature. We may say that we have a mind and is not from Mother Nature as it is not apparently material, but think again the content of our thoughts is all based on matter, which comes from the material given to us by mother nature. After all our brain here physically is the house and instrument of our mind. All that we really have is our essence and true it does come from a place beyond her, but that essence would not be able to develop, i.e. turn into the seminal pea...

Introduction This is a strange post, with a strange title. The purpose is just to give an example of how the essence in any human being can manifest and can transform an aspect of our life, if not our whole life. While Cleaning a Toilet Brush One day at work in the men’s toilets, after deciding to clean a toilet brush that was in quite an unclean state, I had the thought: “that is what I do, I do the same” then I felt an interesting thing, I started to feel one with them – my co-workers whom many I don’t know. Then suddenly I became more aware of the human condition, the way body works, how I was human like everyone else, and I began to feel like a unity with my co-workers and with people extending past the building in which I was in. Seeing a toilet in dreams or going to the toilet is a good sign, it means eliminating waste, transformation. A Gratitude I noticed a kind of gratitude appearing and suddenly it ...

Introduction This is quite important information for us to know about, because this is the path of development of our own essence. Our own essence will follow this path of development, so it is the future of our own essence in the work on ourselves. If we stop working in mystical death and in the three factors we will stop this line of development. Stage of Development The essence in us passes through three stages of development which are: simple essence, seminal pearl and golden embryo (bodhicitta). The golden embryo is the maximum level of development of our essence. However, it is worth noting at this stage that the golden embryo at the time of the completion of the fifth major initiation when the human soul of the Being (the Master within) is incarnated that golden embryo joins or fuses with the human soul.  Each of these three stages are described below. Simple Essence This is the essence that we have naturally that comes from the human soul and is ...