Walking, Walking and Walking… (2454)

From One Life to the Next

Oh God! What happened after we fell in the past? We walked, and walked and walked from one life to the next...

Always looking for something…

Looking for precisely that which we had lost, but alas, we were not even able to remember what it was that we had lost…

Such is the cup of the forgetfulness...

Our immortal and Divine inner Being, was what we had left behind for some reason…

So we walked and walked, travelled and travelled, drifted and drifted as a kind of consolation hoping that our travelling would take us to encounter that which we had lost. Perhaps some new and kind fortune would befall us and miraculously bestowing upon us what we had lost.

Perhaps we hoped to encounter a mysterious old sage, a temple, a mysterious cave, the magic of the mountains, oceans and forests… 

But karma would not have it that way…

And so even now we can catch ourselves walking; feeling that solitude of 'being without' – this is a remembrance and also a sign that we are still lacking much of what we had left behind.

This 'being without' can only be filled by that which we had fallen away from: our inner Divine and Immortal Being.

In our walking and walking we feel that our movement is like progress and even though it clears our head, exercises our body, orders our mind, we still deeply yearn for that which we lack…

Though thanks to Gnosis we now know what it is that we deeply lack…

Fellow Men

The many fellow men and women who live on the streets walk continuously, travelling and drifting from one spot to the next, with all their possessions in a shopping trolley or a bundle, immersed in a state of restlessness and constant searching for the North of their inner compass, which alas, can only arise from inside of one, from the Inner Being, once of course the Lords of the Law allow it.

Those even though they lack their inner Being, and are relatively on good terms with their fellow man and have their karmic accounts in relatively good order, enjoy some peace in their interior, and are safe and happy in their homes at night while some of their fellow men on the streets wonder from one spot to the next looking for something... never finding it, except for trouble that distracts them from their restlessness, the restlessness of the soul that is, that can not be soothed until it receives the balm of that which it had lost contact with…

The Walking can Stop and the Working Start

Once we know what we are really yearning for deep down - our inner Being - and we understand that it is only our inner Being that can fill that deep yearning, we can stop walking and start working.

But it is good still to walk for our health and to order the mind... but no longer thinking we are going to find something that we in Gnosis already have...

End (2454).

When we Separate the Personality Things Become Profound, Novel with a Sense of Awe – (2451)

That is the key behind the sense of awe and the state of alert novelty – passive personality or separation of the personality.

We may be walking from one room to another at our place of work and everything seems so ordinary, matter of fact, routine, dull and grey scale. Though, when we make a conscious effort to separate our personality or make it passive, a notable shift occurs.

As the consciousness appears everything becomes surreal, new, amazing, awe inspiring, wondrous etc.

The personality is a layer that sits over our consciousness and dulls it. To the personality all is ordinary, human and grey scale. The sense of the cosmic and universal is very far from the perceptions available through the terrestrial personality that we have.

End (2451).

Neti Neti and Self-Remembering – (2452)

A Way

Neti Neti is a Sanskrit term meaning “Not this” “Not This”.

With the remembering of the Being we need to find ourselves in our Being. At the very least our identity in the Being. That is to really be and feel ourselves as an essence that belongs to a Divinity.

To do this, a kind of internal undressing exercise proves useful. To tell ourselves:

“I am not my personality – I am not my job, my nationality, my social class, any role that I have…”

“I am not my body.”

“I am not my thoughts nor am I my mind.”

“Nor am I the will that I can drive.”

“I am that which listens and sees the thoughts and that which with intelligence directs the will.”

“I am an Essence!”

Conclusion

Trying this can be a useful alternative when our usual method or way of entering the state of remembering the Being does not work too well or appears mechanical.

End (2452).

Ray of Socrates and the Ray of Plato? - (2449)

So what would be the ray of the Monad who had a vehicle many many years ago in ancient Greece, that it is written had the name of Socrates? Would that Monad's ray be Art, Law, Wisdom, etc.?

What would then be the ray of the Monad of the disciple of Socrates named Plato, who died 11 years after Socrates in ancient Greece? The same or a different one? Perhaps a different one... perhaps one of the three listed above.

Those two dudes in the centre are Socrates on the left and Plato on the right.

Anyway ending all the intrigue, if one reads Plato and reads what it is said that Socrates said, and one combines that with one's knowledge of the the rays taught to us in Gnosis, one can see fairly clearly the different rays of the Monads of these two historical personages.

The Law sticks out in all that Socrates says and Wisdom sticks out in a lot of what Plato writes.

Have a read and tell me what you think?

End (2449).

Purpose of Many Existences – (2448)

Ego as Cause

Master Samael says that the reason why we have many existences or successive existences (i.e. many physical bodies) is because of the ego.

The egos that we have precipitate a new existence and so on and so on, until the ego is eliminated.

However, each existence serves as a learning experience for our Monad. Each existence offers our Monad the chance to learn from a different set of circumstances unfolding in different areas of life.

Only really the learning of our Monad is complete when we actually have moved through or experienced all of the diverse areas of life.

Diverse Experiences

To have lived in each social class (lower, middle and upper), to have lived in several countries with varying cultures, to have lived a religious life and a non-religious life, to have lived belonging to all the religions, to have experienced the path, to have failed, to have triumphed, to have worked in various occupations, to have been a man and to have been a woman, to have fought in a war, to have died for others, to have etc. etc.

Conclusion

All of these experiences serve the purpose of allowing us to know ourselves or rather the Monad to know Itself in the many areas of life which are the areas in which the Being’s own values are expressed. In short these experiences allow the Monad to know, evaluate, test and expand Its awareness of Its own values.

In many ways, what we have of ego is the result of these many experiences that were not lived with consciousness. Now our work is not to have to go through these experiences but to transform the ego into consciousness and we will give to ourselves and our Monad the wisdom of those experiences. In some way the ego is a storage of bottled wisdom, lying in wait for the time to dissolve the bottle and release the wisdom. So our Monad takes us through these various life experiences allowing us to create the ego and then when it is Its will It orders us to work so to release that wisdom.

End (2448).

Overlap into the Other - (2447)

Imagine the Co-Penetration of the Consciousness

Imagine as a missionary you can focus on any one of your students and then overlap your consciousness with them and perceive for a second through the feeling aspect of the consciousness what it is that they are strong and weak in, in relation to life and their spiritual work, and what they may need psychologically and esoterically.

It is good to be grateful to the students that we have. It is even our duty to help really and truly in making progress towards their Being. Sometimes in order to do this well we need to know what it is that they really need.

Thanks to the students that we have, we can learn, we can give and we can serve our Common Cosmic Father.

To talk, to get to know them and to use our consciousness to perceive what may help is a good way to do this.

End (2447).

Nothing New Happens In Our Life Because Sometimes We Are Not Defined Enough for Our Being – (2446)

This could be the reason why the good fortune and peaceful inner states that we are expecting and hoping for do not eventuate.

At some level we are still divided and have not given over or surrendered ourselves to our inner Being. I affirm, not surrendering over to something external – to someone or to something but to the higher part of ourselves.

We can not progress in the dissolution of some egos until a certain decision is made to go by the ways of the inner Being within us. Until we decide to side by the essence and its ways of doing things we can not really advance steadily in the dissolution of an ego.

Until we don’t decide for the ways of the Being we go back and forward in the strengthening and weakening of an ego, and no real progress is made in dissolving the ego.

Dissolving the ego is a process of educating the essence in the ways of the Being.

End (2446).

So Much Time Solving the Problem from Outside Instead of Dissolving from Inside – (2445)

Invest the Energy and Time Inwardly

With the desire of ego we often solve the ego’s problems externally, and in doing so we invest so much time and effort. If we were to invest that much time, mental energy and ingenuity into our interior then a new and much better way would open up to us. 

There is Another Way

Which is to solve it inwardly. That is to invest our intelligence and energy in finding a way to undo the desire of the ego, which is the main element causing the problem needing to be solved.

It is better to dissolve problems then solve them.

We can dissolve problems by knowing and understanding and transmuting the desire.

Desires are to be comprehended and transmuted.

End (2445).

The Teddy Bear Essence – (2444)

Before falling asleep at night grab your essence teddy bear (clear your mind) give your essence a big hug (prayer), feel that nice and cosy, warm and fuzzy trust (remembering the Being) and drift off to sleep asking your essence to protect you and to take you to places where you can learn (positive astral unfolding).

End (2444).

Missionary Comparison Trap – (2443)

Fumes that Rise

In the situation where a missionary visits and gives a talk to the group members of another missionary certain fumes can rise to the head of the visiting missionary.

If the visiting missionary believes these fumes which comes from his or her own subconscious an error could be produced.

These fumes may say: “I am addressing more of what these people need.”, “I am doing a better job.” “The people seem really to like my talk and I can really help them.”, “I explain things better.”, “I understand the people better.” etc. etc.

When these fumes are believed one then thinks the real missionary of that group should not be there or has less right to be there which is another fume, and the people wants one there instead. If actions are made on these erroneous beliefs then problems result – obviously!

In order to not believe these fumes one must question these fumes.

Questioned Fumes

“I am addressing more of what these people need.”

How do you really know what these people need if you are a visiting missionary? Come on get real.

“I am doing a better job.”

Really? After one talk? Come on get real again. Results take several months to be seen and known clearly and objectively.

“The people seem really to like my talk and I can really help them.”

Maybe yes and maybe no. How do you know it is just because you are new. You have your egos too and your egos can bother the people and in time they (the people) can get tired of those egos too.

“I explain things better.”

Maybe so, but you can explain things well to your own people as well can’t you. Or why not help their real missionary a little to explain things well.

“I understand the people better.”

Really how do you know after one talk? Maybe because you share the same mother tongue you think. Well can you speak another language? No! So why do you think yourself better? Maybe you are younger and in touch and more in touch with technology and the things and ways of the times. Well why not talk to the real missionary about technology then. Then he or she will understand the people just as you think you do better. Understanding the people better is no big deal and it is certainly nothing to special or more suited about.

“Real missionary should not be there.”

Oh really! Didn’t the Divine Law, the Beings of the person and the Monad of their real missionary put him or her there? Come one make it clear in writing to yourself what are the concrete and convincing reasons (physical, psychological and esoteric) why you think you should be there in his or her place?

Conclusion

Those fumes must first not be believed, if they are enticing and are half believed resort to questioning them at depth.

The element (pride) within the subconscious that sent up those fumes must be dissolved. Because such an element is erroneous and produces wrong actions that deceive the person and cause much harm. I have seen instructors end their time in Gnosis disastrously because they believed such thoughts or fumes.

End (2443).

When we Stop Expressing – We Think that there is Time Yet – (2442)

The Time on your Watch Reads Now!

We may feel the impulse to express something of gratitude and love towards another, but we say to ourselves: “later” or we think that there is time still.

Now is the reality and time is that which does not ever exist, we are always chasing it. We chase either the future and the past, and guess what? Both don’t exist.

As long as we are in time we will always be chasing. Meaning if we don’t express now we won’t ever express if we are thinking that we will express our gratitude and love in time. Now is all that we have. Now is real!

Gratitude is Now! Love is Now! Change is Now! The Essence is Now!

End (2442)

When Besieged by the Ego – (2441)

Introduction

Read and follow these steps. They are useful measures. If you honestly do them you will definitely feel different. That I can honestly guarantee you!

One

Tell yourself that what you are feeling, no matter how compellingly important, meaningful, pleasurable, critical, disastrous, catastrophic etc. etc. YOU ARE NOT THAT!!! YOU ARE REALLY DIFFERENT and SEPARATE TO THAT!!!

Two

Create Space. Let the thoughts go! Let them go. See them bombard your mind one after the after and each time gently let them g. Let them go! Persist and persist until a space clears within your mind!

Three

Speak to your Divine Mother telling her that you can not give in to those thoughts and feelings. Beg her for her help to solve the situation and understand trouble spot in me that is causing those thoughts and feelings. Tell her that you understand so clearly that going into those thoughts and feelings is not going to help you in any way!

Then KRIM KRIM KRIM begging for the Divine Mother to eliminate the ego and some sparks of new insight or understanding will appear.

Conclusion

The more you do this short and simple practice the more atoms of essence you free from the ego and more atoms of light you bring to yourself.

End (2441).

Admiring the Fire - (2440)

The Fire

There is the fire of life, the very special energy of life that brings forth life, and that is the spark of life. The vivifying energy that is behind life and that produces and sustains life. The energy that is present in everything that has life. The fire is intelligence, light and energy. The fire is something cosmic and also something microcosmic.

Gnosis teaches that the fire is something which has its source within the Absolute. It is the essential living energy of life that is present in our essence, in our creative force, in our interior Father-Mother and in our coccyx.   

Olympus

As has been told to us through the legend do of Prometheus, that the fire given to man was taken from the Olympus, the dwelling place of the Gods (Absolute). 

Fire in the World

The fire that is present here in the physical world is the same that we have within us but on a microcosmic and spiritual level. The fire here in our fire place at home is an expression of the cosmic fire and even shares much of the properties of this special life bringing cosmic fire. 

All from Fire

The Christ has been described as a living fire, the Christ as the son of the Divine Mother is also fire. The fire is that which gives life its energy. There could be no creation without the involvement of fire. Everything created has been touched by fire and contains fire. Even physically, nothing can be made without fire. That is, without the involvement of energy, heat, electricity, movement etc. If nothing moves or vibrates then how can anything be made.

A Redeemer

The fire is a spiritual element one that consumes, transforms, brings light, enlivens, rises and climbs, liberates, renews and spirits away from one dimension to another.

The cosmic fire is multidimensional and contains its many layers and aspects of mysteries. This mysteries of the life giving energy must be captured by the Divine Monad, because in doing so, the Monad of any person can understand the mysteries of the absolute which are to understand Itself.

Mysteries of the Fire

The fire to liberate its mysteries must consume that which holds its mysteries. When fire consumes a piece of wood it liberates the fire that is latent within it. Fire is sacrifice in motion, to liberate spirit by fire, matter must be sacrificed. That of the lower quality is sacrificed so to gain the superior order of things, such as light, wisdom and energy etc.

The fire in our coccyx must be breathed into life out of its smouldering. As it ascends the spinal column it also liberates that which is contained in each cannon of the spinal column. Each cannon or vertebrae of the spinal column contains a mystery. 

Fire Knows how to Ascend

The fire knows how to ascend that is innate within it. We all must start the fire and feed it and ti will ascend all by itself. It knows how to climb. Every flame in the physical world knows how to each up to form a vertical column.

The fire is fed with the sacrifice of the psychological inferior. That is with the work on the ego and with the merits that result from the sacrifice of the ego.

Fire Consumes Each Body

The fire so to reveal its mysteries needs a body. Each body that a Monad has allows the fire to reveal its mysteries in that dimension of itself. There are physical, vital, astral, mental, causal, Buddhic and Atmic mysteries of her fire. 

So the fire must be awakened and made to ascend liberating its mysteries in each body so that the Monad can learn and absorb all of these mysteries in each dimension. 

Seven Flames in the One Flame

There are seven flames within each flame. The fire gives way into light. And in its superior octave as light, there are also seven dimensions which are the Venustic initiations. Which culminate with the fire in itself in the form of the Intimate Christ, the living fire sent o redeem us. It descends into us to slowly consume all the inferior (egos), which is to sacrifice the inferior so to liberate the fire (essence) that which belongs to it, the free essence which is also a form of fire. This way the fire redeems spiriting us away from dimension to dimension through its inter dimensional climb back to its Source.

End (2440).

How do you Know you have the Solar Bodies? - (2439)

Master Samael Gives the Most Infallible Method

The most infallible method is the method Master Samael gives us, which is if you have a body you know that you have it because you can use it. For example, if you have an astral body you know that you have one because you can project out of your physical body with it and move around the astral plane with it.

But what about if we have had some astral experiences but not mental or causal experiences? How can we then find out?

There are some indications to find out.

Look to the Causal

People who have the bodies have very special qualities. They are definitely not the normal type of person.

Those who have the bodies have a very coherent, logical and powerful emotion, mind and will. Basically those who have achieved great things in history where great will, mind and emotion was needed are those who have the bodies. 

Fallen Bodhisattwas

The fallen bodhisattwas all have the bodies. If a person has been in Gnosis for a long time, for several years and has continued to battle and fight then we can be sure that one has the bodies. A person without the bodies would not be able to sustain such an effort. A person without the bodies is very jumpy, flighty and does not have the ability to set things up in those dimensions within oneself.

If you have ever made long and intense efforts and have been able to give everything for a prolonged time towards a cause, a project, an achievement and in doing so you overcame many obstacles and you had continuity of purpose then it is a good indication that you have the causal body. And if a person has a causal body it is certain that he or she has the mental and astral bodies.

Look at Simon Bolivar, Napolean, Michel Angelo, Leonardo, Socrates, Plato etc. Obviously these fallen bodhisattwas all had their ray and using the powers of their bodies achieved great things in line with their ray.

It can be that the egos use the bodies as well which makes what the egos do quite powerful. 

Mental Body

If one has the mental body one can much easily perceive what is in the universal mind and so bring down into the physical world with a lot more ease the teachings, issues and mattes present in the universal mind.That is why a person with the mental body can help others better because he or she can capture what is the mental world of people through the connection to the Universal mind and then address those issues to the people.

End (2439).

First Quality of the Ego's Darkness - (2438)

Layer of Darkness

The first quality of the ego's darkness is that it makes us to feel that the ego is something exclusively particular to ourselves.

In that darkness that has the flavour of a special fascinating exclusivity is the feeling of superiority.

Within that darkness we can even think that with the ego we are superior to others. Due to that quality of darkness we can even think that our ego is superior to the same ego in another person.

Once Removed

As soon as we hear about the ego in ourselves being the same or behaving, thinking and feeling the same as it is in others, that first layer of darkness can be removed.

That is a relief and a 'kick yourself' moment. Because we realise that we were asleep in that darkness.

It is the same relief that after having been sick for a while you see the doctor and he or she says what you is this and that, and it is relatively well know and treatable.

Removing that darkness allows us to see that it is something that can be worked on and dissolved. We also take a step closer to seeing our reality. The reality that we are as others are, and there is no great difference or special separation.

End (2438).

When Interacting With Others Take Care for Your Values - (2437)

Interactions with Others

When we interact with others the best thing that we can do is to care for the values of our essence. Meaning to answer with the values of our essence. 

If we change our perspective to be interested in our values and not interested in our image or the value of our ideas or our external personal dignity or in the way we are treated (real dignity is not how we are treated but in how we react to unfair treatment) we can do this, that is start to act from inside rather than from outside.

We Always Get Something

We are always interested in getting something, when we know that we are going to get something everything turns around in us. We react with the ego in interactions with others because we feel that we are going to get something or get something back. If we use our values we are going to get something and we are going to get more of our values, more of our essence, and more of what our Being is like. 

End (2437). 

If a Mother is Powerful in Her Love Imagine Your Divine Mother – (2436)

As Below So Above

If we want to understand something esoteric or know a bit more about something esoteric the Hermetic axiom proves very helpful.

If a mother makes so many sacrifices for her son or daughter here in the physical world and the love of a mother heals, nurtures, educates, remedies and transforms then we can be sure that our own Divine Mother is exactly like this and more.

This is trust! This is faith! To know and feel secure and firm in our own Divine Mother that She can heal, remedy, transform and educate us is faith.

End (2436).

Anecdote - Power of an Old Lady Praying – (2435)

Introduction

My marvelous missionary was told a story once, back in the days when he was doing his missionary course or a short time afterwards, about how powerful an old lady praying can be.

Story

The story is meant to be real, set in Costa Rica I think. Where a mother and son lived out in the country in a semi-remote area. The mother’s son was rather tricky and attracted to evil and dabbled in spells and things of that sort, i.e. black magic.

Then one day the boy wanted to take his dabbling to a much serious level and invoked one of the entities that his spells and dabbling was related to, with the purpose that this entity would take him away from his remote abode where he could experience another kind of life.

One night the mother was praying and felt something strange, the demon or entity that her son had invoked was arrived to take here son away. The demon took the form of a dark, strong, aggressively powerful horse, that the son would mount and ride away on. The mother upon seeing this began to pray with all the her heart and soul and her son desperately want to get up off his bed and mount the horse but he could not move. The power of a mother praying with all her heart and soul froze him against all his desire to mount that horse. Event eh demon could not break the power of her prayer and eventually it left.

Master Samael I was told said something to the effect of never under estimate the power of an old lady praying in front of a candle.

Conclusion

The moral of this story is that our prayer when done with heart and soul is very powerful and change things such as events and circumstances.

End (2435).

See the Ego as a Being Relationship Remedy Pointer Outerer - (2434)

A Different View of the Ego

We can see the ego in so many different ways. From seeing it as something totally demonic to something that we have to love, and many things in between.

Trouble Spots

We can see the ego as something that like pain points out where the trouble spots in our interior are. These trouble spots among many things are spots where we do not relate well to our inner Real Being.

These trouble spots are areas of life and areas of relationship with life and our Real Being that we do not understand well and that we have not come to balance as yet. We have not produced for ourselves in that area the elasticity that is a product of the comprehension and balance processed by our own consciousness.

Conclusion

The first step to correcting something wrong is to know in full detail what the problem is. If we look in the direction of what is wrong in relation to the quality inside of ourselves that relates to that area of life we can slip stream our work.

End (2434).

Make your Work Consciousness! – (2433)

Would You Work On Yourself if you were alone on the Earth?

If the answer honestly is an immediate yes, then congratulations. You have the work deep within you independent of anything or anyone else.

Would You Work On Yourself if Master Samael Appeared and Said Gnosis is All False?

If the answer honestly is an immediate yes, then congratulations. You have the work deep within you independent of anything or anyone else.

Remove External Reference Points for Your Work

When we work on ourselves because we are tired of our suffering, and we are tired of being who we are and we honestly want a change then we have made our work consciousness.

When the reference point for our own work is our own consciousness we have made the work consciousness and obviously when this takes place in us we will work on ourselves despite any external factor.

Conclusion

We just need to make our own work consciousness then we will always be in peace with the work.

Everything has to be made consciousness, anything that is not, perishes and withers away, without being taken advantage of.

The work is not outside you, it is inside you, it is inside your own consciousness. Your own happiness is not in Master Samael’s Being but in your own Being. The work is yours, it is only ever yours, and when it is not yours, it is only a dream, a difficult dream at that.

End (2433).

A Look at Self-Punishment, Self-Flagellation and the Like – (2432)

Religious Context

It is quite often seen in religious contexts, where a person sins (using the Christian terminology) and then to help repent for that sin and to pay penance for that sin, the same person inflicts harm upon his or her own flesh.

An extreme example of this can be seen in the book (and also movie) “Angels and Demons” written by Dan Brown. Where Silas, a member of the Opus Dei, after committing the sin of murder severely mortified his own flesh.

Reasons Why

There are two main reasons behind this practice. One is to take the initiative to wash away the karma or debt caused by the action and the other is to leave a mark in the person’s memory and psychology such that this will prevent the person from repeating that error again.

The last reason is an attempt at comprehension but as you may appreciate, it can fall short of full comprehension.

There are many other reasons that Christians of the past practiced self-flagellation, with some of them being to conquer softness, lukewarm faith and to reaffirm the strength of the spirit over the body.

From Lips to Ears

This topic is something that rather belongs to the class of knowledge that is passed on from teacher to student in secret and is not written anywhere. But anyway here is a post about it.

I was told that at a certain time Master Samael may have used such a practice to pay some karma and to help him in the work of the dissolution of the ego.

For a certain periods of time or at certain stages, such a practice can be useful. But practiced wisely and with balance.

True comprehension of the consciousness actually surpasses such a practice. However, while that comprehension is being processed, such a practice may prove useful.

The error is to make such a practice more than what it is and take it out of context, believing that this practice is comprehension and that this practice is a way of life.

Balanced Version of a Such Practice

I have practiced a very light version of this, to hold myself accountable for the actions of some egos. I would not allow myself to get away with any action of a certain ego without having repaired, replaced, apologized, compensated for the harm the ego had done. The way the compensation was carried out had to be in a way that really hurt – in the sense that it was costly in terms of: finance, time, effort, sleep and personal sacrifice. Because otherwise there would not be a lesson, no reminder, no extra help to not do what the ego wanted.

People may deprive themselves of sleep so to practice, expose themselves to cold or heat while practicing, kneel down for a long time on the cold and hard floor etc.

Conclusion

I think this type of self-enforced hardship can be helpful for a while when working on the ego. Though, measures stronger than that could be more harmful than good.

End (2432).

Emotions Overwhelm – That’s What They Do – (2431)

So Good to Know

The emotional centre - the crazy elephant does exactly that - overwhelm us from time to time! That is, produce such a high wave of intense emotion that we feel overwhelmed.

So what is it to feel overwhelmed? Well we feel overwhelmed when we see that the degree of emotion is something off our normal scale of emotions, and it is something that we think that we don’t have the capacity to accommodate in our system. In other words we “think that we can’t” deal with the emotions or what we are faced with.

After a lot of experience of being overwhelmed, I say “we think that we can’t” handle the emotions because when we are experiencing those emotions, we are actually handling them, we are actually coping with them, we are holding them within our system. But that mind you, is different to being able to practically cope with the work load or whatever it may be. Feeling overwhelmed is an emotional reaction.

It is like a tsunami that floods in but all waves and tsunamis always always roll out!

Remedy – Delay

The easy to apply, and easy to remember remedy is: DELAY!

Feeling overwhelmed is like a tsunami, it rolls in destructively but it rolls out. So if you just wait a little then it will roll out and things will be very different.

Just delay! Just wait! Breathe! Trust! Know that it is a tsunami and then just wait knowingly and with trust in the fact that it will always roll out.

End (2431).

Feasts in Esotericism – (2430)

A Feast

We hear about feasts now and then in esotericism. Obviously, they are not feasts to do with eating and drinking as they are here in the physical world. They are to do with esoteric qualities.

In esoteric feasts, esoteric values are liberated in abundance for all those attending the feast to nourish themselves with.

These qualities are mainly wisdom, light, energies of various types, spiritual help (even blessings), inspiration, love and lucidity.

Conclusion

A retreat is really an esoteric feast. Because we receive much energy, light, wisdom and love from people.

End (2430).

Look at a Sand Timer – Use it to Lower Stress Producing Expectations – (2429)

Sand Timer Neck

A sand timer not only reminds us that our time is limited, it also shows us something else.

If we observe the join between the two bulbs of a classic sand timer we will see that there is a very narrow neck. That neck is what controls how quickly the sand flows from the top chamber into the bottom chamber.

If the neck is wide, a larger quantity of sand will fall through to the bottom chamber. If the neck is narrow, less sand will fall through to the bottom.

The special thing is that the width of the neck is designed so that only two or three grains of sand can fall through at a time. No more!

That is exactly us, we can only do so much and each thing we do takes the time that it takes for us to do it. We can not do more than what we can do, just like no more than two or three grains can fall through the join of the sand timer.

Conclusion

Expecting ourselves to be quicker is not the answer or the way. It is the way of stress and inefficiency. When we know what we can do we can be efficient. Before knowing what we can do, we are all over the place, not achieving very much at all.

Connecting to reality takes stress away!

We are stressed when we are not connected to reality.

End (2429).

Honour the Being in Yourself - The Way we See Ourselves Ends Up Provoking Others to Treat Us that Way – (2428)

Honour the Being

The more that we start to honour the Being in us the more that we change the way we see ourselves.

The more we honour the Being in ourselves the more we will honour others. The more special they will be for us.

When we honour our inner Being we attract treatment that aligns with that.

There is always a special something, called reciprocity at play, where we get what we put out. It just does not make sense to be despising ourselves and receiving reasonable treatment from others.

If you have physical gold we expect that we will be able to buy many valuable things, won’t we? We don’t expect to buy with a kilogram of gold a packet of chips passed the use by date, do we?

Conclusion – Interesting Things

The very interesting thing about our psychology is that according to our self-image we end up provoking others to treat us in the same way that we see ourselves. Which makes a lot of sense. The even stranger thing is, that eventhough we see ourselves in a belittled way we protest terribly and suffer when we are belittled.

End (2428).

Ego Broken and Open to the Being - Heart Over Mind – (2427)

Suffered too Much with the Rebellious Ego

The ego mounts a steadfast rebellion holding up its position even in the face of so much personal suffering, for even such a long while, but then with our continued efforts to understand it, separate it and overcome it, comes the moment when finally it having been weakened by our efforts and all the suffering having slowly sunken into our consciousness, it bows down and we with gratitude and remorse surrender to the ways of the Being.

Victory of Heart Over Mind

That is what we must do! Especially with pride! Work and work until the love in the heart bends the ego and we surrender to the work and the ways of the Being in us, because we know it is not going to make us to suffer, because we know that it is right, becasue we know that we can progress on the path, that we can stop getting more karma, and finally because our will knows that it is right. The consciousness in our will finally knows that the way of the Being is right and it will finally do the will of the Being – which is as a general rule always the work.

End (2427).

Separate the Ego Not the Work – (2426)

Strange We Are

We need to separate the ego from ourselves as something foreign from us. But we are so strange that we accept, believe in, integrate with and identify with the painful ego and we separate the work from ourselves thinking and feeling that it is something that we have to do, or that our instructor, wife, husband or Being is making us do!

Wrong!

That is all wrong! The ego is the painful foreigner and the work is ourselves, it is inside of ourselves. It is our inner natural way of trying to get free ! Our work is not in our missionary, in Master Samael or in anyone or in anything outside of ourselves.

Tail Wind not a Head Wind

When are struggling thinking that we have to do the work it is because we have separated the work from ourselves and we see the work as a ‘head wind’ instead of a ‘tail wind’.

End (2426).

Every Place Has Its Special Spots for Healing and Rejuvenation – (2425)

An Ailment - a Remedy

It seems that many cities, towns and villages all have their special places provided by nature for people to heal and rejuvenate.

It also seems that if there is ailment that is very prone to be developed in that area, city, town or village, mother nature has also provided a remedy.

For example in Australia, hay fever and allergies are so easy to catch and many people say that while they were living abroad on other continents they didn’t suffer any kind of allergies, but in Australia – every spring time. So unique to Australia are all these allergies and unique to Australia is the Eucalyptus which is very good a treating and clearing the effects that hay fever and many other allergies have on the body.

Your Area, City, Town and Village

So your city, town or village also has it special spots of healing and rejuvenation. It is just a matter of finding them, whether they be hot springs, mountains, the ocean, rivers, valleys, plains, forests, waterfalls etc. etc. Then going there and breathing it all in, quietening the mind, becoming receptive and entering into harmony with the place, and exchange your awareness with the place and that way you mingle in or plug into the place and you energise, heal, rest and rejuvenate. Even to get so relaxed and fall into a trance like sleep there is especially rejuvenating an interesting.

Conclusion

Nature provides these spots for all of us to make use of.

When troubled psychologically they are marvellous to balance you once again and reset our psychology into the more balanced and correct perspective on things. It also gives you a break that serves to help us work on ourselves better.

End (2425).

The Devil and Fried Eggs - (2424)

Anecdote on the State of Alertness

This comes from my marvelous missionary and it is so good at describing in a comical way what the psychological sense of alertness is. Here it goes:

Two Questions

"So there was a man working day and night on an oil rig in a very hot and remote place. After a while he really wanted to be out of that place and doing something different. Somehow he heard that if he were to make a deal with the Devil, the Devil could help get him out of there.

So one day he cries out with all his might offering his soul to the Devil as long as the Devil gets him out of his miserable job and out of that hot and unforgiving place.

Then lo and behold the Devil appears in all in His power and says to the man: "I will help you as long as you answer two questions immediately without a second of hesitation.". "Do you like eggs?" "YES!" replied the man emphatically in less than a second.

The Devil then disappeared. A few days passed and the man continued working, a week passed and the man continued working and waiting, a month, a year, two years, three, five, ten years. Then after a little over ten years, while the man was working and sweating like a poor devil, a voice from behind him asked: "How?" and in less than a second the man yelled out: "FRIED!".

The man then got what he was asking for.

Some Comments

That is the state of alertness to be constantly waiting, with alert perception, to catch something a little special, a little different and new, lurking behind the thoughts, that will give us a new clue about the ego.

As the anecdote suggests a degree of firm wanting, or definition in other words, is needed to maintain our state of alertness. The firm wanting is fueled by the yearning of wanting a change in ourselves. Just as the man in the anecdote was desperate to change his physical circumstances.

End (2424).

Worldly Malaise - (2423)

Introduction

Without the spiritual work we move through our day and therefore most of our life in a kind of a malaise.

We are not sure where we are going really, we hope we are moving towards something but it seems like we don’t have enough of a handle on things to really be going there - to really track our direction and pace. Time just slips away so quickly and it seems like our day was spent in a busy haze, where we emerge from the busy cloud an hour or two before we must retire at night to sleep.

Remedy

To live this way is not at all satisfying, it tires the soul.

These feelings of malaise, i.e. of not having a handle on things whisper to us the remedy.

The remedy is to get a handle on things, all by not letting the start of the day slip us by.

Obviously, to get a handle on things, we need to give ourselves direction, and the will to go in that direction, which is reinforced by the reasons of why to go in that direction.

If we can start the day contemplating or reflecting, or simply thinking about and reinforcing some basic truths about life we can set ourselves up with the energy and focus that gives a handle on things in our life.

• Time is short
• Everything is impermanent, everything changes (we won't always have favourable conditions)
• Cause and effect (we are the ones responsible for our steps and directions in our life)
• Each day is a chance to take a step forward for our Monad and ourselves.

Conclusion

We can dissipate this cloudy state and get our direction back and push ahead. Only the spiritual, as it is above the plane of life can give us a true North. The more we cling onto the work and the Being in us, the more we can dissipate any cloudiness, and take up a handle on our life and its direction towards the spirit, the real, and the true.

End (2423).