Gnostic Wisdom

This “I” is worth working on. All because it brings one much pain. Even when pleased, this “I” feels a kind of teary, happy pain, which is something very different to the plenitude and happiness of our own essence, that is not tainted by pain. This “I” is embroiled in the manifestations of the “I’s” of pride, self-love, self-importance, self-compassion etc. When rejected, when abandoned, when neglected, when abused, when treated harshly the pain that we feel mainly comes from this ego of self-sentimentalism. We may be very hard on ourselves but considerate of others. As we can control our own psychological pain but we can not control the pain of others. It is to see ourselves as precious, poor, little, handicapped, disadvantaged, incapable, needing help, a dear person, a good and kind person, etc. etc. When we see ourselves this way we can not understand how others can reject us, treat us harshly, hurt us, etc. Obviously, others do not see us this way do...

The word stopinder is an esoteric word that relates to the Law of Seven. It seems that it was Gurdjieff that first brought this word to public light. The Law of Seven known in esoteric terms as the Holy Heptaparaparshinokh emanates from the Sacred Absolute Sun (AIN SOPH AUR) and it governs the way lines of force or energy descend through creation, as well the way they these energies condense into and within the different levels of creation. It is said that lines of force descend from the Sacred Absolute Sun and take on a series of deflections before these lines of force re-encounter their beginning or origin. Our Monad is actually one of these lines of force or energy. Actually, according to the law of Seven, these lines of force take on eight deflections with their being seven intervals between each deflection. The interval or duration between deflections is what is called a Stopinder. Obviously each stopinder has a different quality. The different stopinders ...

This mantra is very effective mantra for quietening the mind. It is most effective using will and imagination. Vocalising just as Master Samael describes: imagining oneself to be sitting on the edge of a high cliff with strong winds blowing. Vocalising the mantra like a howling wind and feel that the mantric wind blows the thoughts away leaving the mind clearer and clearer, emptier and emptier. This can be done at anytime. End (2685).

Introduction This post is a follow up of the previous post titled: “Fabulous Creatures Living Within Us – (2679)”. What better way then use a passage of text from Master Samael (El Quinto Evangelio, page 1276). Excerpt - English “The "Son of Man" used to live in us. Remember, brothers, that the Phoenix Bird has witnessed the course of the ages. She saw the golden souls of the Golden Age, transformed into souls of silver, copper and iron, and yet she remains the same. The Phoenix Bird, always crowned with a golden crown, with its eyes that look like stars, looking at unalterable infinite space, with its vestment all of divine purple, and its blue chest, and its long green tail, where the stars of unalterable infinity are reflected, and its golden legs, and its red nails, dies and lives. When she wants to renew herself, she makes a kind of nest, and in it she puts the aloe, and the myrrh, and the incense, branches of every sacred species, and in it she is...

Guarantee If one works on jealousy one can be certain (guaranteed) of the following: One Significant diminishing and vanishing of the empty feelings of loss, and the panic or anxiety or perhaps even dread or sadness that result from that empty feeling. Two Significant diminishing and vanishing of the intense anger and pride of having our unspoken rules or expectations broken. Three Significant diminishing and vanishing of the anger about the lack of control over the person. Four Significant diminishing and vanishing of the feeling of being insulted/offended by the other person having taken the gaul to pass over our rules and expectations and ‘sacred love’. Five Significant diminishing and vanishing of ill-will towards the other person and the ‘other other person’. Six Feelings that the other person does not really love us and loves the other person more or more naturally or spontaneously. Seven Feelings that we are not good enough disa...

Trust is a quality that is so fundamental, that it miraculously turns out to be major remedy for many egos. It is a major remedy for fear, skepticism, self-sufficiency and many aspects of pride. It is a good remedy for jealousy and envy and it can certainly be of some help when working on the egos of ambition, greed and gluttony. I say please cultivate it because it will help you so much. I don’t want to give any methods (maybe one day I will) but if you are sincere about doing it and you start to do it, you will certainly do it! Start from the very basics and build up. You will not regret the effort that you have made to cultivate trust. It will be paid back to you enormously. End (2682).

Introduction A didactic examination by the consciousness of this event that befalls one from time to time in the events and circumstances of life. Roles Narrator Ego Person Consciousness Script Narrator:               Before we begin, it is useful to set the background of this event. This event of life can typically bring out the egos of pride, self-love and self-compassion. Perhaps just one or a combination of all three or just two. For this demonstration we will focus on the combination of pride and self-love.                                 The person in this demonstration is a person who is working on him or herself and really wishes to dissolve the ego, as do we.         So, the person played by ( use name of person ) wants to repa...

A few times over the years m.m.m has mentioned to us that Master Samael described one of the ways that the ancient Greeks instructed people about the comprehension of the ego. Those words have always stuck with me… Just recently it has dawned on me, after trying to think of another way to demonstrate or explain how the ego can be counteracted and comprehended, that a variation of this method can be used to teach how the ego can be worked to dissolution. The method is essentially to write a play, where each character has a scripted role to perform (read out). To begin with there is not much room for improvisation, however in the roles of the ego and the consciousness room for improvisation based on revelation and inspiration can be made. The roles to be played are: the role of the ego, the role of a person and the role of the consciousness. Also I think that the role of narrator would prove to be very useful also. The next post contains an example: “A Gift Ret...

Introduction All the myths, fables and legends of the past are in many more ways than we think - real. The trick being, that they are real not much outside of ourselves but within ourselves. Nearly all the fables, myths and legends teach us something about what we have living within us and the various prodigies that they perform within us, as well as the labours that we must tend to on the path. This post is somewhat of an answer to the book written by J.K Rowling titled: “Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them”. A List Here are just three of the many. These are perhaps the most famous three. Phoenix Bird Fiery Serpent Dragon of Wisdom I hope in some posts in the near future to write some more about them. There is a post already on the dragon of wisdom which you can read by clicking here . Make Contact What matters most in dealing with this theme is to make contact. At the end of the day all of these fabulous creatures living within us are ...

Lengthens or Shortens Time Sexuality has a relation to time. It either lengthens or shortens time, as well as marking out time. As sexuality creates it introduces time. The more it densely it creates the greater the intervals between which time is measured increase. Sexual creative energy on its descending spiral creates ever more densely and in the denser creations time increases. Sexual energy in its upward ascent towards its source shortens time. The denser creation becomes the slower things vibrate. Meaning their frequency of vibration is lower. As frequency and time are inversely proportional, the lower the frequency the greater the time (f = 1/T). Remember the universal measure of time is always the time it takes for a natural phenomena to repeat itself. The ‘T’ in the formula f=1/T is the time between the same point in successive cycles. In the Body As the sexual energy is expelled from the body the cells of the body are slowed down as the energy w...

Back in Time… Master Samael tells us that back in the times of Lemuria, sexuality was governed by the Divine Hierarchies. Under the direction of these Divine Hierarchies and in harmony with cosmic laws and cycles, the Lemurian couples were led to the temples in a kind of migration lit by a full Moon to procreate. The real origin of the honey moon. There those Lemurian couples in the temples used the method of the Kriya Shakti where there was no loss of the seminal entity. Only one sperm cell by means of concentration, will and imagination was released to conceive a child. Back then before the fall sexuality was governed from above. Even now sexuality is still governed from above. It must be as sexuality has much to do with the well being of the planet in many different levels other than with the issues of population. The Fall The fall was essentially the result of breaking away from this Divine governance. After the fall sexuality separated from the Divine gov...

Modifications After prolonged manifestation in our human machine, certain egos can begin to modify our instinctive centre. The instinctive centre can be modified. Though often in Gnosis it is taught that one should not try to extensively modify it. This is because it is taught, that if one makes changes then by the sheer complexity of the interconnectedness of the instinctive centre and its functions, changing one thing would mean changing many more things if not everything. In light of the above we may say that the instinctive centre is not very adaptable. In truth it is not very adaptable in the short term, however over the long term it is very adaptable. The instinctive centre even has the function of adapting within it. It must have this function as human beings move through different environments the instinctive must work to adapt our body function to the conditions of these new environments. When the ego manifests with great intensity it creates havoc in our hum...

Many people complain about attending a spiritual retreat. They say that they can not attend full time, that it is simply too difficult to remain at the retreat over night. Yet previously during the year they fly overseas for a few weeks. The expectation is then that no one reminds them about having flown overseas. Furthermore, it is considered even taboo to mention this to someone. All because of the subconscious aspect of the personality which says that personal time should not be touched and interfered with. Certainly though no one is going to interfere with it, but asking about it is different to interfering in it. The subconscious works by keeping things hidden or off limits. It is about there being contradictions and there being the strongly held expectation that it should not be touched or brought to logical light. End (2675).

If we get identified with an ego, two pieces of essence are dragged into our subconscious or internal abyss. These two pieces of essence are our free essence and the essence trapped in the ego. When both pieces of essence are in the abyss or subconscious, because it is dark in there we are confused, lack vision, inspiration and access to many of our normal strengths. It then is of high priority to leave the abyss as quickly as possible. A characteristic or a symptom of the free essence having been dragged into the abyss is that we see the world and everything as hopeless and just too difficult and against us. As soon as our essence floats up, that dark perception of life, the world and ourselves changes! All is possible and life is beautiful again! End (2674).

All the qualities our essence has must be made individual. That is they manifest freely based on inner criteria. Not the criteria of others outside of us. If we have love we love from inside, not because another says that we should love. We don’t stop loving because another dislikes that we love. We trust based on our essence not because another trusts or another distrusts or dislikes etc. To make things individual means to make our essence and its qualities stand by themselves independent of another person or other external factors; certainly not dependent on others or external factors. If our values are dependent then we don’t not possess these qualities and if we do not possess them our inner Being can not help us and others through them. End (2673).

Every ego is an answer to an area of life. Envy like all the other egos has its particular area of life. Envy's area is all to do with progress and success. Envy is a conditioning in duality of a certain quality of all Beings. Which is the joy for the success, happiness and progress of others. Envy conditioned in duality feels sad, upset, depressed or aggravated at the success of others and it takes joy in the failures of others. It is a thinking, feeling and willing in a direction opposed to the natural state of this natural and Being/Essence quality of feeling joy for the happiness, success and progress of others. Envy like all the other egos is conditioned in duality. Each ego is conditioned by duality which is the opposite of the natural flow of the essence within us. Each ego has a good and bad side. The good side of envy is that it can propel us to also make progress as others have made. It drives competition and that can bring innovation and improvemen...

Ancestral Aspect If we don’t transform envy we end up with a rival. There are cases where the rival becomes one for life, and that rivalry continues from one life to the next. One aspect of the work on envy implies totally annulling this rivalry that we bring with us from the past. That ancestral type of rivalry is best annulled by the transformation of rival to friend. Keys The opposite of envy is the happiness for the success of others. Here are some keys which when applied can reduce a manifestation of envy down to a small bump. One – Transform into Good News Be glad, tell yourself “Thank God that person succeeded!”. It is good for them, their family, society, others, the planet, the heavens etc. and it is very good for us. See that their success does not disadvantage us. It is always true that anybody’s success on the path does not adversely affect us. See that their success opens a way for us and for others. Two – Counter the Undes...

Master Samael says that when an essence emerges from out of the abyss, and begins its process of evolution through the mineral, vegetable, animal and human kingdoms it does so through its planetary ray along with other factors. Master Samael says there are minerals and plants that belong to planetary rays.  There are plants that belong to Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter etc. These plants channel better to the Earth the energies that come from these seven planets. The rose - said to belong to the planetary ray of Mars We can then infer that this planetary ray stays with the essence all the way into the human kingdom. Thus the lines on our forehead. Inferring once again that we with the determined number of lines on our forehead, we channel the energies of a certain planet to ourselves and then to the Earth.  So each human being is a planetary talisman according to their planetary Ray. Why we belong to a particular Ray is a mystery to be...

The eternal qualities of everyone's Being to remain as they are, in their pristine state must remain in the inner Being and used by or at least for the inner Being. As soon as these qualities of the inner Being are used outside the harmony of the inner Being, a will separate to the inner Being is manifest. This will in action can only further condition the quality in question. The conditioning of that quality from its source revolves around that separating agent of will.  That separating will is the first layer of the "I''. That will is the reason behind the first statement of the ego. The ''I'' begins as a separating cause or reason from the inner Being. The qualities of the inner Being are best left to the inner Being or the consciousness or at the essence to exercise. Hence the many parts of the Being with their particular functions. When a human being tries to take a quality into its own...

There are many egos in ourselves that like to go against ourselves, and they even express themselves directly: verbally and in action. Some of those egos are: self-compassion, self-love and self-importance. There are also other egos which go against ourselves but in a way that we do not immediately recognise. Such as anger and lust. Lust drains our energy and dignity, and anger as well as draining our energy, sets in motion a cause and effect process whereby whom we affect, we will later on be affected in the same way. To hit another is just to hit ourselves. Amazing - we are the 'other'.   My advice is not to accept anything from those egos. Not their fear nor their disappointment nor their sadness. Certainly not their pain! We can not control the pain of the body, but with will, consciousnesses and persistence we can certainly control the pain of the ego. Our psyche is ours! With the remembering of the Being within us and a bit of love for that Being w...

Introduction Here are some examples of the law of seven in manifestation. These examples feature in the physical, psychological and esoteric realms. Note, the Law of Seven is also known as the Holy Heptaparaparshinokh . Physical Realm Examples 7 Tones in an Octave The seven fundamental tones of the octave express the law of seven. The addition: Do, of the next octave, that is to say, the crowning of the process, gives rise to the eighth step. 7 Colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Violet, (and White which unites them into one whole). 7 Days of Week Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 7 Wonders of the World Pyramids of Egypt, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharoh’s lighthouse at Alexandria. 7 Seven Seas Arctic, Antarctic, North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic and the I...