Old School Bully Died - (3570)

Years Ago

So this was years ago. I picked a fight with a kid in primary school and it went pretty pear shaped. That's because he won and very quickly became like an enemy and his mates turned into like bullies. 

Thank goodness he didn't kick me there.

That was a really good lesson to learn. I first thought the lesson was: "if you pick a fight make sure you can win". I tried that, then I learnt that up against teachers and the school principal you are never going to win. After that I began to learn the lesson, that: antipathy does not take you anywhere, only into lots of trouble, into lots of reprimands, stress and fear. Its not the right way, the best is to be on good terms with our fellow man and then live in peace. 

Dead

Anyway that aside I was one day reviewing my life and I remembered that guy and I so I googled him and holy macaroni the guy is dead, he died in November 2017 during the time of one of our big retreats. I couldn't believe it, he was a very athletic and fit guy. But according to the public records he is really six foot under. I wonder how he died that old mate of mine...

What do we feel when a person like that in our life dies? A relief, happy, nah not at all really - sad more like it. An enemy is a friend really, and sometimes a friend is an enemy. I would really have liked to have met him again and God willing and him willing also, turn that enmity into a friendship and pay that debt forever.

Friend and Enemy  

Both friend and enemy are similar. We are linked closely to both. We have intense feelings for both. Both help us. We think a lot about both. We help both. We know both. They both know us well. They both know our weaknesses and strengths well, we wonder why both are in our lives and we deep down in the quiet recesses of our essence we love both...  

The only thing, is that feelings, thoughts, help etc., is polarised in opposite ways for friend and enemy. A friend helps externally while an enemy helps internally.

A friend can be an enemy to our essence, because the friend protects and justifies our weaknesses. An enemy is a friend to our essence as it gives us the opportunity to grow stronger through adversity. 

The conscious friend is both friend and enemy in one. A friend that helps in all the positive ways but then when it comes to our egos, that friend is an enemy, because that friend wants that we dissolve those egos and see the light of our essence shine through.

An enemy was really a great friend once. All the real enemies of Gnosis for example, were once great Gnostics. The big guys in the abyss were once great angels. And sometimes the best friends are those who were once sworn enemies.

A friend you know Master Samael says is an esoteric degree. It takes much maturity and much consciousness to be a friend on the esoteric path and even in life to someone.

End (3570).

Group Mind Lucozade - (3569)

When a group of people get together their minds get together. This happens because of the law of like attracts like, i.e. the Law of Attraction.

When a group of people has the same goal, and a very similar way of thinking about that goal, parts of the group member's minds are attracted to together because like attracts like. As the different parts of people's minds come closer together a group mind is formed.

The group mind is a connection point or a hub if you like through which the mind of each member is loosely linked to the mind of the other members. 

This group mind or hub is formed in the mental dimension. 

Through this hub members can sense the thinking of the other members related to the group's common interests, which are essentially the group's goals. 

The thinking of a few groups members also through this hub can affect the thinking of some of the other members. 

It makes sense that the more mental stability there is the more stable this group mind will be and the more the group members will help each other through the group mind.

The group mind can be perceived by a visitor, because it often has a flavour and a typical way of thinking about things. 

The more focused the group members are on the group's tasks the stronger the group mind is and the more each member is helped by each member.

To unite or focus a group on a task is powerful as the energies that are generated flow through the group mind and give each member access to energy that he or she by him or herself being alone would not otherwise have access to. 

This energy boost (like Lucozade) is not often felt, because the members are not united or focused or there is mental disruption or problems.

End (3569).

Perfect Love Map - (3568)

Ah we look for perfect love in a woman, but it is really hard to always find it there, and a woman may look for perfect love in a man and it may be even more difficult to find it there. Lots of disappointment here and there. Well, in our Being is a place where we can find it. Where else could we find it I ask myself? In God, yes in God, but who or where is God for us? In our Being right! In our Being!!!

How do you imagine your Being relates to you? Has to be through Its love right? Or could it be through a corrupted, tainted love? No! Of course not! It can't be that, that is more how we may relate to It! So It LOVES us, but that LOVE is unknown to us or mysterious to us or like out of reach to us...

Look at that love of the Being for a minute, see, imagine, how could it be? Explore it widely, see your life - see how that love has guided, protected you, look and look and explore and explore through all of your life's events. Take inspiration fly and search...

We may see how different it is compared to what we think it should be or could be like. Perhaps we think it should be that we be spared all darkness and suffering, no accidents, the best treatment all the time...But it is not like that is it? It is different to what we think isn't it? Sometimes surprisingly better than we think right, so much more wiser Than we could have ever thought right? And sometimes like it is not there or was never there right?

Anyway here we can learn! Meditate on how our Being loves us. That'a very worthwhile thing to do. Such a meditation done earnestly may rock your socks off, because some turkey brain egos believe the Being does not love us but wishes only to pUnish us. Well I don't believe that and I don't want to either!

See how flexible and forgiving the Being is with us. How patient, how hopeful, how trusting etc. If after Meditating or thinking deeply on the love of the Being you feel moved in your emotions you did something. You did! Shut up the skeptical pessimistic mind! You did! Now the trick is to live with that from now on and not forget it after you get up and have a cup of mint tea with ginger

You know that indifference towards the Being in us is not good for us - we the aspirant. It is our very job to melt that cool indifference with meditation and prayer. Not really the Being's job but OURS!

The Law of Reciprocity m.m.m says states: "that the more we trust the Being the more It trusts us and the more it comes closer to us". We must start first! The first step to take is OURS!

What about the times when we feel love, could it be that the love of our Being is streamed by Him through us and we feel His love? He puts it in us and takes it? But our essence loves also does it not? But His Love is the Divine Love...

End (3568).

C'mon Fight Back! - (5291)

Quite a few years ago, I remember when I had some ego really bad, m.m.m would look at me and say really firmly: "c'mon fight back!". Not wanting me to fight or argue with anyone but to go inside and fight the ego that was bothering me. 

The truth was that I couldn't do anything, because I didn't know the keys to fight back against that ego. But I just tried anyway.

Later the keys came and that made a big difference.

Sometimes we have worked a lot on an ego and have it under our thumb. In this case analysing is no good at all, it is just time to use will, heart and KRIM to send it packing out of our human machine and out of the event and into the hands of our Divine viper that will sting it to death.

Sometimes we know a lot about an ego but it is still well and alive, and we can say: "here we go again, that same old ego with the same old feelings, same old negative state it will take me to, I don't need that and don't want that", and so we can just "smile and wave" at it, make an effort to separate from it knowing that it is not us, knowing that "it is the same old ego", don't think about it for a second more and send it packing with some almighty KRIMs. 

Sometimes it is new and it is time to look deeply inside to get information about what that thing is.

Sometimes we are in the middle, it still has a strong grip on us and it hurts, you want to say something, and you desperately want the balm of comprehension to arrive and set you free. So your system is telling you what you need - comprehension. So we need to directly question that ego, to generate comprehension. 

Question and question its truth, look for the value hidden in it, get that value and take it up to the Being, remember the Being through that value, reverse the polarity of it, this is the fight. If nothing happens at all, you got nowhere try again and again! A huge real weapon is PERSISTENCE!!!

End (5291).

Vanity: A Server of a Lacking Self-Image - (3565)

Purpose

What do we have vanity for? Always for a reason, there is a reason for everything in our psyche,  and to serve the ego I would say is that reason. 

Essentially to serve the interests of some particular egos. To serve the self-image in our pride and to serve our lust. 

Vanity by observation goes hand in hand with pride and lust. A little scary to accept, as it seems to go against our decency, but yet upon deeper observation it is true. Ah deep down in an unspoken kind of recognition we all know that it is true anyway.

What it Does

Vanity checks that a person is looking their smartest, coolest, funkiest, sexiest, most spiritual, most centred and collected, (depending on what one values) to have the best chance of impressing someone in particular or others in general.

Vanity is the one that is in charge of arranging one's appearance. Vanity is the one that often accompanies us while clothes shopping. It is there with us at the gym, or it is there making us cool, calm and collected while everyone else is panicking.

Even a married person may have vanity and lust, and present oneself with the vanity and pride combination just so to feel attractive, to feel mysterious and interesting to others, to feel able to turn a head etc. Not to do anything but just 'to feel', and that feeling goes straight to feed one's self-image, that I am likable, lovable, good, fine, worth something etc.

Void of Lacking

When we deny vanity this chance of impressing others we feel that we are missing out on something.  On some kind of satisfaction of putting our best foot forward or representing ourselves properly and well. Mind you we only really feel like that when there are particular vested interests behind looking good. We could not care less about looking good for grandma. 

How is this void of lacking filled? For us if we know how to fill it we can peacefully begin to do away with vanity.

We can do away with it slowly when we see that impressing others is not as important as what truly being is. When we try 'to be' we find the work of how to truly 'be'. It is better to be strong than show others that we are strong.

I don't know what this quote means. Is it a positive connotation or a negative one?

Yet we maybe strong but we still want to show others that we are strong. Then in that case we are not strong in our self-image yet even though we are. So it is a matter of bringing our self-image to match our reality.

Imagine that the vanity of a man with lots of muscles may be sad because he did not get the chance to remove his shirt at the beach. So vanity exists to show, but always for some purpose. The man is muscly but his vanity just wants to impress others. It is the need to impress others that is behind his vanity. I ask myself, isn't the fact that the guy is muscly enough? Why be so hang up about showing his muscles to others when he has them? Well maybe he worked to get them not for himself but to show others. Why? Because he needs something, he lacks something. He lacks being able to feel positive towards himself, which is due to a lack of self-remembering and work.

Sometimes you see very vain people suffering a lot and thinking negatively about themselves. All due to this defect in vanity that does not allow themselves to feel positively towards themselves. Instead the mind takes over and wants themselves to have a certain rigid weight, look, appearance, style, presentation, persona, ability etc. etc.

By vanity showing something to others we 'feel' something. That which we 'feel' is valuable to us. It fills a lack in our self-image. It is not valuable to others, so we are often when vain unfriendly or disinterested in others - i.e. selfish. As soon as we fill that gap in our self-image that vanity has nothing to serve so it floats around aimless. 

The use of vanity in our psychological work is that it shows us the gaps, holes, lacks, deficiencies in our self-image. It is worth studying very closely our vanity.

Impress Others

Vanity seeks to favourably impact the thinking of others, relative to ourselves. I mean vanity wants to impress the minds of others to think positively about ourselves in a certain way. Those 'certain ways' being what we hold dear to ourselves in our self-image. Note, it is not too concerned about impacting the feeling of others. That is self-love and self-importance's domain.

We may just want to see ourselves as reliable, dependable, responsible, and so vanity will wish to impress others to think that we are those things. The truth is others will think what they will. It is only ever ourselves who want to think that about ourselves. In fact we only want to think that when we do not have those things. So we can see vanity is related to fantasy. 

In doing away gradually with vanity - comes what? FREEDOM! Vanity is an inner compulsion to impress. So much effort goes into impressing. We all know this intimately all too well. 

In the image of the Real Being there are not these lacks. Self-remembering as always is our turn to remedy.

End (3565).

Fantasy Hides a Yearned for Value - (5290)

In fantasy there is often a value that we are yearning for, and of course because it is in fantasy we really lack that value. Hard to accept sometimes or every easy to accept sometimes too.

Find that value or quality and then look into one's life to see where that value is lacking and instead of a value being there, there is a defect.

Then we have our work to be able to acquire the value and as we do fantasy about that value will finish. In fact as soon as we find the lack of the value in our life and we make real contact with that discovery fantasy has suffered a tremendous blow. 

This is because we have the real and the unreal clearly before us and we know that fantasizing is not giving us that value which is really what we want and so the natural movement is to step more on the side of the work to gain that value.

End (5290).

Remember, Commit, Work, Assess and Resolve - (5295)

This is what m.m.m does with his day. I think that it is a very good way of using the day.

First he wakes up and remembers the work. Then he commits before his Being to spend the day in awakening. He then gets to work and at various points during the day he assesses how he is going. 

Note:
This regular assessment is very important! Don't skip it.

Come the end of the day he resolves to continue working into the next day. Giving the work a continuous line.  

We can do exactly that but with something else that we need. Which could be the work on a particular "I" for example until it is dead wood.

End (5295).

The Ethers Part 2 - (3562)

Introduction

This is a post about the Ether and the Tattwas. A post that a little while ago I promised that I would do: see the post "The Ethers - (3524)".

So here it goes.

When talking about the tattwas wE have no other recourse but to resort to the Vedic texts and Hindu philosophy and of course Master Samael's works.

I have actually completed a few postS related to the tattwas which you find listed here for some complementary reading.

The Vedic textS say that the CosmIc Mother in her capacity to give to creation has a root sound hreem, and within that sound are the three shaktis or powerS of the DIvine Mother. They are known as iccha shakti (tamas - will), jnana shakti (sattva - intelligence) and kriya shakti (rayas - action). All that is in creation is made from these three powers. These three powers or qualities are also the three Gunas.

Tattwa/Tattva

Tattwa or Tattva is a Sanskrit term meaning element or principle or reality. Master Samael says that the tattwas are the vibrations and or principles of the four Elements.

They also say that there are actually 25 tattwas or elements that make up the world. The first five tattwas are the known as the Maha Tattwas. These are Akasa (ether), Vayu (air), Tejas (fire), Apas (water) and Prithvi (earth).

However, before these 25 elements there are what they call the subtle elements. There are five, and they are sound, touch, taste, form and odour, and are furthermore known as the Tanmatras. The subtle element of sound is the first one to manifest from hreem the root sound of the Cosmic Mother.

From the subtle element of sound comes the denser element Akasha known as the Ether. The Akasha or Ether is a vast field of energy that covers the universe and also makes up the universe. When the ether vibrates it produces movement which becomes air, hence the tattwa Vayu (air). When the different elements of air brush up against each other friction is produced giving rise to heat or fire or the tattwa Tejas. When the heated air condenses liquid or water is formed producing the tattwa Apas. When the water solidifies it produces earth - the tattwa Prithvi.

So behind the dense elements that we have here on the planet Earth are the tattwas. They are the energies and principles behind them. Because really the elements are condensations of principles. Earth, water, fire and air have their unique qualities and they have their own principles from which these qualities come from. 

Creation always proceeds from the subtle to the gross. so the elements come from the tattwas. The tattwas are the animating principle or higher reality behind the elements. As Master Samael says control the tattwas control the elements.

Tattwas linked to Senses

The subtle elements (tanmatras) mentioned above are sound, touch, form, taste and odour. Each tattwa has one of these subtle elements as its main quality. The sense organs that we have are according to this teaching present to allow the mind to interact with each tattwa.

Akash belongs to sound, touch to air, form to fire, taste to water and odour to earth. Our ears allow us to sense sound, our skin allows us to sense air, our eyes allow us to sense images, our mouth allows us to taste liquids and our nose allows us to smell the earth.

Tattwas in Vibration During the Day

Certainly there is a particular timetable in which the tattwas vibrate more dominantly. Master Samael mentioned the qualities of each tattwa and he basically said that if it is cold and wet then the tattwa of Apas is vibrating. If it is dry and hot then the tattwa of Tejas is vibrating.

In the next few posts I can write about the qualities of each tattwa and explain what the mantra hidden (2nd and 3rd paragraphs) in the text of this post is for.

End (3562).

What we can Learn from a Tree - (3555)

How does a tree grow? It starts off as a seed. The seed planted in the ground, begins to first grow roots. After the roots reach a certain depth a small trunk begins to reach up out of the seed. The trunk grows up and up. Soon branches and leaves grow and only once thee trunk has reached its maximum height do all the branches extend themselves fully and sprout all the leaves they can.

A tree's roots are our feelings that need to run deep into our earth - which is our body. The trunk is our action that is based on and supported by our feeling and the branches and leaves are our lofty thoughts, that once feeling and action have been established can they expand, multiply and take inspirational flight. 

Of course before the deep feeling there is thought, but that thought is different to the thought that opens up and expands after feeling and action have been established.

Just look at someone becoming a teacher, after thinking (fighting in his/her mind) about becoming a teacher, the person begins to feel like becoming a teacher and as that feeling deepens one begins to study and later work as a teacher and then after some years experience as a teacher only does inspiration. innovation, expansion, fulfillment in the teaching field take flight.

End (3555).

Kundalini Posts: Kundalini Must Leave the Coccyx! - (5365)

Once the Kundalini has been awoken, by nature and by law of Fire - by law of Shakti, She must rise!

Check out a flame, it always always will seek to rise. It can not do otherwise. Fire is always an upward pointing triangle.

In fact the universal symbol for fire is an upward pointing triangle. Fire is energy in liberation, energy being transferred from one dimension or state to another. It is a portal from the more dense to the more rarefied or spiritual. It is very much related to birth and death.

By nature the awakened Kundalini is dynamic and must move. If it does not move, stagnation stifles Her and she can fall under the danger of being extinguished and made to slumber. 

That is, She can retrogress back into Her previous static state. Or even by our own error She can withdraw to slumber.

For any flame to rise it needs a widening in its fueling base and an upward draft of air. The heart in us is both of two factors. It provides the fuel and the upward force for Her to rise.

Master Samael says that the merits of the heart control the fires of the serpent.

The fire is sufflated by the will and effort of the heart made in working on the defects, and it is fueled by the dead wood of the comprehended defects, and ascends as the level of the Being rises. 

The level of the serpent represents the level of the Being of the initiate.

In short the heart leads the development of the fire. Mystical death is its developing and guiding force.

Shortfalls in mystical death stagnate the development of the fire.

End (5365).

To Sustain you must Like - (3561)

To keep something up or sustain any kind of routine, discipline or effort one must like it.

For example, a diet. To keep a diet, you basically have to like what you are eating.

The same with the esoteric work. If we like it we can sustain it and keep up an esoteric discipline. 

The intelligent thing to do is to make up the routine with practices that we like!

But then also be double intelligent, balance what we like with what we need.

End (3561).

Zoom, Skype and Teams can Finally Take a Funny Run - (3560)

Finally here in Perth, the online classes can jump in the lake!

Zoom, Skype and Teams can stay where they belong in the interstate and international fields, but thankfully now, we can kick their beeehiiind out of the local field.

I imagine there will be a short period of adaptation involved, where one now has to get oneself use to making more effort, such as preparing things to leave, jumping into the car, finding parking around the corner somewhere, braving the cold wind, facing the people when entering the centre: receiving a gamut of impressions, from straight faces, and tired faces, to smiley faces and warm enthusiastic faces. Then making the effort to not get distracted and drift off because you can't turn off the camera or mute the microphone. Then back in the car, driving home for a half hour instead of just clicking the red hang up phone symbol and taking a couple of steps and sinking into the couch.

All of the above efforts were totally normal before COVID-19 and in a few weeks it will be normal again. 

The real good thing now is that the work in the group can resume, because even though there were classes things were not quite marching. 

End (3560).

Occult Role of Single People in an Esoteric Group - (3559)

One day someone was talking to me and said emphatically "I want to speak to people who understand me. So understand me!".

So I wiped the dumb look off my dial and focussed.

So here I want to write for mature people, so understand what I am writing in the sense that I am writing it and as m.m.m says: "don't come to me with non-sense".

Here goes:

When a group of people is formed dedicated to carry out esoteric activites a certain occult formation is created. This hidden formation is a force, almost like a metaphysical group identity that is like a sum result of the force of each group member. 

This hidden group force if it is strong and dynamic helps the instructor, providing the instructor with inspiration, drive, enthusiasm and impetus to overcome many obstacles and provide the group with what it needs to advance.

If the metaphysical group force is weak, that is skeptical and lacking spiritual strength, the instructor will be burdened, made heavy and be taxed of his or her energies to make this group advance.

Now, this group force is influenced of course by the sexual energies of the members. The sexual energies contribute to the formation of this metaphysical group force. More so than we think. 

If the sexual energies of the group are disorderly this will disrupt the efforts of the group. If for example there is a single lady that two, three or four male members like, then this 'out of the norm' situation is a disorder and causes the metaphysical group force to be edgy, a little volatile and distracted. Perhaps even a touch aggressive, depending on the refinement or level of being of those gentlemen.

If you have ever been through the city at night on a weekend, you will know what I mean. It is a very uncomfortable and awkward atmospshere that is in the background - aggressive, because the egos of lust and vanity of men crash against each other.

The ideal situation is when all the member's energies are chanelled into themselves or their spouse and so there are no disorderly situations.

However, single ladies because they do not have a husband, family, children and many commitments that involve their energies, they have an excess of their feminine energy that helps the group force to give rise to new projects whose results can materialise in its members. The feminine energies also harmonise and stabilise as well as bring a natural order of materialising or synthesising. The excess masculine energy from single men acts in a way to protect and direct what is being created. Too much masculine energy can act in a way to destablise a group.

So for the situaton where harminizing is needed and a new start is required, the energies of single ladies in a group is useful for this. There are some groups where the balance is really unusal. For example there could be a group with all male members bar one or two, or a group of more or less all single ladies. The particular set up of a group with more single ladies for example serves a purpose, which is to create, give form to, establish, materialise something that is new for the group but is something that the group needs for the circumstances it is passing through and the environment in which it is developing in.

A group that is very dynamic and has a demanding work standard, is benefitted by the presence of single ladies amongst its members as this helps to consolidate and settle the group amidst of the many movements and changes. 

End (3559).

Scoop Out More Time not Ice-Cream - (3558)

No lie, we need to meditate! To study the mind properly and to see the subtle layers of thinking that an ego presents to us we need to be still, physically, emotionally and mentally. Hence we need meditation. 

We can be use to working on the fly, in the heat of the moment and that has great merit. But as we are active we are not able to dedicate all of our focus to observing the mind and catching the all important subtle aspects of an ego.

To meditate we need to carve out a block of time from our day. With the work on the fly we don't need to do that. However...

Scoop or not scoop? Scoop out time instead. 

We need will to carve out that time slot and for 'the fly' we need will to dedicate our day to the purpose of working psychologically no matter what happens.

Both need organization. One to organise our day and our mind and the other to organise our will and mind.

Looks lock down is easing off here in WA, so the time that we had at our disposal is quickly going to disappear, so its time to rush and take advantage of what's left.

End (3558).

More on Mantras Again - (3557)

Recap

A mantra is a sound that encloses an energy, a power that is intended to set the chanter's consciousness free from his/her mind so that the chanter's consciousness can experience and meld with the energy enclosed in the mantra. 

Here is an example to illustrate the above point. 

Roger chants the mantra HAR-PO-CRAT-IST. Those letters form a mantra and that mantra is a sound, and a sound is a vibration and what makes a vibration is an energy. So Roger chanting HAR-PO-CRAT-IST starts to make his whole mind sound, and because it is sounding it is also vibrating and because the mind is falling into order, Roger's consciousness will begin to detach from the mind and it will naturally begin to experience the energy of the mantra and then experience the power behind the energy. 

That is how mantras work.

Luke Warm

We most often don't really get them to work because we lack concentration. What really gives us concentration is trust, hope, faith and higher trust. In that order.

So trust allows us to be open to accept the mantra, that is to accept the power of sound. Then hope allows us to embrace the mantra intensely, and faith allows us to really penetrate into it with deep emotion and then higher trust allows us to identify with the sound, that is to become that sound, to trustfully surrender ourselves to it. Then magic happens...    

Identification

A note on identification. Identification is not bad or good. Like a knife or a box of matches. It all depends on what we identify with. If we identify with things that are not us - all suffering happens. If we identify with what we are - all peace and authencity happens. 

So identify with the ego - then we all the know the results and feelings. Identify with the essence then we also know the results.

You know identification is not possible without the elements of trust, faith and hope. When we identify with the ego we trust it, we have hope in it and we believe in it don't we? When we stop believing in it, that ego is going to start to die.

End (3557).

Mantra Notes - (3549)

Notes

A few very quick lines about mantras. I think that it is good to know a bit about the science of mantras because in Gnosis nearly everything is mantras.

There is a whole science of study do with mantra. It is sometimes called Mantra Yoga or Sound Yoga.

The objective of mantra is to connect the mind to the cosmic mind, where our mind can then dip into the primordial sounds of the cosmos. Mantras are to cause our consciousness to lift away from our mind and to experience the vibration of a certain thing.  

The word itself teaches us this: mantra is Sanskrit made up of  the two Sanskrit words: 'manas' and 'trai'. Manas means mind or thought or reflection and trai means protect or be free from. Putting these two meanings together we see that the word 'mantra' means to be free from the mind.

So with a mantra we can free our mind to experience our consciousness and our consciousness can then in turn experience the sound hidden in the mantra, which is a vibration, an energy of a cosmic order.

The traditions say that if you know the name of something you can gain mastery over it. This would be the inner name. Knowing its vibration, its sound we can identify with it and therefore with our consciousness being aware of the identification we can know its inner qualities.

End (3549).

Whipped to Change - (3556)

The masters and the Divine Mother for that matter, are not always all beauty and sweetness. They have a harsh side. Of course what is unwavering in whatever side they manifest, is their love. At times the love is sweet and at times it is as harsh and fierce as a barbed whip. 

We can appreciate that if it is not harsh the lesson would not penetrate and no positive change would be made. Of course to receive such a harsh whip one must be mature and know how best to take it. The best way is always to take it as an impetus to change. This is how the best can come to us. 

It serves no point to take it wrongly. The Divine Mother knows which side is best for us and when and how to deliver the lessons that we need to learn. She is a friend of our karma because the justice in karma cleans the essence, brings valuable lessons that clean and transform it. 

So have you ever seen a person being whipped (psychologically) so to change? We find it hard to stand right? Sometimes we can take it ourselves but seeing another is more difficult. To defend to interfere is not so good, it is best to let justice do its job which is to clean and transform a part of the person's essence.

It is hard, we think we are not being loyal or loving or protective of the other. Well when things are unjust it is right to say so in defense of the other. It is good to be vigilant to make sure that the movement to correct an injustice does not become another injustice. But at the same it is more consciously loving to see that the person receive that lesson and in receiving that lesson that person never fall into that error again, and with that lesson help many others to avoid that error. 

End (3556).

Humanity Would Change if the ET's Appeared! - (3554)

Imagine that one day the ET's appeared in plain sight for all humanity to see, just like in the movies. It would be a tremendous shock! It would shock people to the core! But with that shock a revolution in thinking could begin and from there a revolution in consciousness. 

They are really the only ones now that can introduce humanity to the awareness of a greater cosmic life. A life that is of the consciousness, the Real Being and the cosmic truths and laws. Everything else for humanity as a whole has failed! Of course the governments are not going to like it and most likely attack or drive them away.

Maybe when the time is right they will come. There are so many accounts of people having seen them, but it has made no difference to them and humanity as a whole. One day maybe they will appear (unfortunately at great risk to them) in such a way that humanity will not be able to brush them aside, but instead stop and drop to their knees in awe.

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Gnostic Institutions have their Particular Qualities - (3552)

For sure each Gnostic group and institution has their particular qualities. How can we deny that?  

Some Gnostic institutions have many who are on the path giving them a high value. A particular institution may lean more towards the first factor and another may lean more towards the third.

Anyhow each institution has before the white lodge their particular value and qualities, making one more suitable for a particular mission or function than another. Some to build rapidly new points of light, some to maintain and intensify the light through hard work and sacrifice and others to protect the light etc. etc.

All the Gnostic associations, centres, groups and institutions are branches or arms of the White Lodge. Each arm is there for action, there to fulfill a task. Mostly the same task, but perhaps a different one for a short period of time.

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Gnostics on an Island - (3553)

Imagine that all the Gnostics were on an island. How would it be? 

It would be like a big long retreat in some ways. Where we are all dedicated to work on ourselves. Doing practices, receiving and giving talks and enjoying the time in between to work hard on ourselves.

That's the ideal. But then there's the ego. But then there is the nice harmony of everyone dedicated to the same cause. If there's the ego there's all the help needed to overcome it. Imagine the masters are there as well, to guide, illuminate and protect us all.

Obviously the conditions would be nothing like we have here in our countries, cities and homes.

The problems always arise in the kitchen, in the cleaning, in the rules, in the sharing of facilities, in the roster, in the queues, in the organisation of things, in the differences, in the past, in antipathy and sympathy, in the relativity of things - why are you first and me second?

It could work couldn't it? As long as the work on the ego is totally well and alive. As long as pride and lust are worked on really well, it could work. Well that's what I reckon any way.

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Ray of Liberation - (3550)

About

It's an interesting thing that there is a ray of liberation. Could it be that the Absolute knew that a ray of liberation would be necessary in creation? So, if the Absolute knew that it will be necessary, it knew that in creation there will be some kind of trappings or chains of enslavement.

The Hindu yogis say that the Divine Mother is the one that binds and liberates. The essences who descend into creation are bound to creation to fulfill the role of animating the creation of the Cosmic Mother, yet it is her that also awards freedom from it.

One condition of liberation is to liberate oneself first, or either to liberate oneself enough to be able fight for the liberation of others and in the process attain one's liberation as well as the liberation of others.

What purpose would the ray of liberation serve if it was only for a single person? If there is a ray in creation it is there to serve others. Service to others is in every ray. We can only really be judged in the end by how well we served and loved others through our ray. C'mon tell me, if for example you are the ray of love and you never shared your love or gave your love to help anyone, and that is where your special abilities and talents lie, then how could you have you really served and helped others? Yes yes with other minor things, but not with the core of you with the most powerful part of you.

Levels

There is liberation on many different levels. On the physical, as did the many liberators of the past, liberating entire peoples from their oppressors, on the mental and emotional, on the will and on the spiritual. The spiritual liberation conquers all the others. Master Samael is a spiritual liberator and all those working under him.

It would make sense that Monads of the ray of liberation would be drawn to where there is oppression. In this case planets such as the Earth would be their natural calling.

There have to be many in the world that belong to this ray. Who seek in their specific areas of life or expertise to liberate people from some level of conditioning.

Even a doctor is a liberator, a doctor liberates one from illness.

Master Samael said that Simon Bolivar belonged to the ray of liberation. He mentioned that such bodhisattvas of the ray of liberation have a special power of the causal atoms that give them an immense will. Will is needed for liberation more than anything else. It is the power that breaks through the obstacles. Simon Bolivar liberated large parts of South America from the oppressive rule of the Spanish conquistadors.

Law of

The ray of liberation logically and naturally collaborates with many other rays. Of course force, of course love, of course wisdom, of course death and of course Law.

Liberation without Law is not liberation. There is in fact in existence a Law of Liberation. Where the Law dons the gift of liberation. Similar in a way to how the gladiator Spartacus won his liberation from the enslavement for years within the gladiator's ring. 

In Gnosis, any Monad of the ray of liberation, I imagine would seek out the third factor, as it is the most obvious and unique stage where the mission of liberation can be fulfilled. 

The more liberation one gives the more liberation one receives. The law of reciprocity supports the law of liberation.

A superior law washes away an inferior law is in some way liberation. Liberation as a principle is conquering the karmic weight of the inferior to by will and love of the superior break into the life of the superior. Liberation is not to ever go from better to worse.

Jupiter

Every ray has its antithesis. The ray of liberation may well be related to Jupiter. As Jupiter has to do with powers, authorities, delegations etc. The opposite of liberation is of course tyranny. Where naturally things go from good to worse. A country run by a Tyrant is usually a miserable country with a poor economy with many normal and natural freedoms denied.

Anyway to conclude, if someone asked me would you like to belong to the ray of liberation I would say: "next time when I'm stronger" because imagine those guys of the ray of liberation, the Monad in them by the very fibres of their inner nature will push their vehicle to move towards liberation and to fight for the liberation of others, but yet who is going to shoulder the karmic burden of paying for the liberation of others. Exactly - those very same Monads that belong to the ray of liberation. So it is not an easy ray to belong to, if one does indeed take up the fight of the liberation of others. 

The ray of liberation works with laws that override other laws. In other words, it works with superior or higher laws that are closer to teh Absolute. Making the Sun and Jupiter to be the most fitting planets to be aligned with as are they are the planets of soverignity, whom have the soverign power to override inferior laws.

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Higher States of Being - (3551)

There are two ways to get to higher states of Being. One is by our own effort and the other is by Divine Grace.

Some spiritual teachers say that our own effort leads to the second - divine grace. 

In Gnosis, I believe that view is also taken. So much relies on our own efforts.

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Liberation Notes 5: Common Emancipation by Comprehension - (3548)

Introduction to the Introduction

This post is only an introduction to this way of liberation that Master Samael actually gave a talk about. This talk can be found within the pages of the two tome publication titled: "El Quinto Evangelio" under the transcribed lecture called "Las Dos Vias de Liberacion".

So this way of emancipation Master Samael says is for those who feel that they can not do the way of liberation with realisation. That is the way of liberation via the three mountains.

So there exists another way to liberate oneself. The way of the path of the three Mountains is not the only way. However, as with everything there are advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages and disadvantages can be discussed in a later post. In fact they really must be discussed.

Common Emancipation by Comprehension

The point I was wishing to make is that the Absolute in its mercy was able to secure for the essences a second way of liberation.

It is called Master Samael says: "Common Emancipation by Comprehension". Meaning that it is common, i.e. open to all who are willing, and the means by which it is done is via comprehension. that is mystical death.

Both ways share the same common denominator which is that great truth, that there can not be any liberation or emancipation without mystical death.

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Best Policy with Sexual Energy is Integration - (3546)

Integration Introduction

First thing is first, integration is the best policy with our Being. The path takes us through successive stages of integration to the Being.

The sexual energy is of the Being and so going towards the Being also implies integration with the sexual energy.

There are levels and levels always.

No matter where we are there is a level of integration that we can aspire to and work towards achieving.

Obviously before doing that, the prerequisite is to know where there is not integration.

Transmutation though, not only to do with the sexual energy is the conscious means of integration. That is transforming that which is not integrated into that which can be integrated.

Lead can not be integrated into the Spirit but lead transformed into gold certainly can be.

A very self-defeating and ruining thing in life is to fight against reality. Against what is! The best is to love and integrate with reality in whatever form reality is confronting us with.

Psychological Clearway

Anyway, in order to integrate better with our sexual energy, has to be looked upon I would say with respect and with high positive value.

Looking upon it this way, we make the channels through which it flows through clear, so that it flow through to the higher levels within us, where it can merge with our essence and its noble qualities (psychology).

The way to give our sexual energy clear ways into our psychology, is to not have anything against it. When we don't have anything against it, we open up our physical and vital channels for it to flow freely to its consciously directed natural destination which is the brain and heart (centres of higher consciousness). An aside note the Hindu yogis say that our legs are the parts of lower consciousness in our body. Truly the sexual energy must always have to rise. Kundalini Herself being fire, always rises, as fire always rises and is always vertical.

Conclusion, if we integrate psychologically with the sexual energy, we can transmute a lot easier, and we in the process unite the sexual centre more into the whole of ourselves. Normally the sexual centre is somewhat disconnected, due to fear, due to lust, due to various wrong religious concepts etc.

So any psychological blocks that we have, actually divert the flow of sexual energy from reaching the higher centres of consciousness in us and consequently due to the blockages the energy gets stuck in the lower areas.

With all that energy stuck in the lower areas, the functions of those lowers areas or chakras gets totally amplified. For example, the energy being stuck in the sexual centre makes the sexual function amplified.

Because the sexual energy is volatile it will always seeks to flow, but due to the blockage it can not flow and later of course it explodes. Be it with anger or lust or via a very barbed and sharp ironic tongue.

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Personality Tests - (3547)

At work they asked the team to do the personality test at: www.16personalities.com for a bit of fun.

After several questions and like 10 minutes or so you get your results (Defender ISFJ-A). Actually not bad at all really. Quite revealing. For sure it reveals things about our human personality but for sure also things about our psyche.

It gives us some insights into how our psyche uses our centres, how some of the egos we have significantly influence our visible nature and it can shed some light onto some of the roles and positions that we have taken up in life.

I think that it can give us some insightful threads to pull on to delve deeper into our psychology and if so willing work to make some big and noticeable changes.

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Expect Another to Solve Your Problem - (3545)

We all know this already.

Sometimes when we have a problem or an issue to solve, we hope another person will solve it for us. 

We look that they will perhaps give us their approval to do something, or help us or even solve it for us.

Most of the time this just can not be. We are the one's that have to help ourselves. This can sound impossible, but there is no other honest option. Especially if it concerns our life and our choices.

So that which we are needing to solve the problem, we have to be the one who gives it to ourselves, and most of the time therein is the solution.

The problem of having both the ego and the work at the same time or the problem of having two privileges at the same time can not always be. One of these things has to go at some point down the line, and mostly it is for us to choose.

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How do you See Another? - (3544)

The blunt answer is via the ego or via the essence. 

The essence sees another over a wider range provoking many feelings from just normal to respect, to gratitude, to appreciation, to kindness, to compassion, to love etc.

The ego on the other hand has a precisely dual perception.

We may see someone agreeable and nice and then after an ego happens we see them ugly and nasty. But they are the same.

I really try not to believe the illusion that the ego projects making another person seem sharp nosed, hawk eyed, thorn tongued, nasty and just plain old difficult.    

It is an illusion, which after all can be broken in seconds. The other person gives you a hug and then the thick smoke of illusion has been swept away and they are agreeable and nice again.

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Anger the Forgetter of Reason - (3543)

When we forget there is a reason that a cat meows constantly or a person is upset or a baby cries and cries we are already getting angry.

There is a reason why a person is upset or annoyed, there is a reason why a cat meows and why a baby cries. 

Anger appears in a person to quash with the use of force that which is without apparent reason.  

I mean quash the cat meowing for no apparent reason by putting it outside and closing the door and saying: "fix yourself up seeya".

Anger does not see a reason why a person is late, why a person is scared or irritated. Anger in a kind of arrogant attitude says that there should be no reason why a person is late, scared or annoyed etc.

We can avoid anger big time if we remember there is a reason and then if we instead of anger (misdirected force) look to find the reason and address the wrong. Rather than hit out and make hitting out the solution to the problem.

Of course it is much easier to get angry as the solution, but the conscious way is to find out why and address the cause. Try and fix up that cat with something, food, a pat, water, an outing... IT gets frustrating of course when we don't know the problem.

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Practice to Get Closer to the Divine Mother - (3542)

Closer to Divine Mother

I should have really posted this in Easter time. Nevermind though. It is always worthwhile knowing some different ways to approach our Divine Mother.

Sometimes we just want to be close as we can to our Divine Mother. To receive her help. To receive guidance from her, to be given a clear direction from her to solve our confusion on what to do. To feel her presence with the protection and assurance that it brings. To receive her wisdom that will be as a balm to heal the hurting of an ego. The courage to push through the right solution to a problem.

In our times of need it is really helpful to know some ways to be close to our Divine Mother.

When we really pray hard with all our sincerity we will reach our Divine Mother. We know this and because we know this we feel hope. 

We pray with great sincerity and we go to sleep with hope that tonight when we sleep our Divine Mother will show us what to do, she will impart to us the wisdom we need.

Practice

Anyway the way I was promising to present to you is the to imagine yourself to be Mary, to be the mother of Jesus as he passes through his passion. See all the steps of his passion and totally identified as Mary his mother. Feel everything that a mother would feel as he passes through his passion.

This will help us to learn more about the qualities of the mother and about her role and her relationship to the Intimate Christ, and this will take us closer to her. If we do this with devoted concentration we will learn something and we will for sure feel closer to Her.  

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Monkey Magic Golden Head Band - (3540)

Not sure if you have ever watched the Monkey Magic series years ago. Anyway the rebellious but good Monkey wears a golden band around his head so that if he becomes disobedient Buddha up there in the clouds begins to tighten it giving him a huge head ache.

We have something like that in our essence. When we are rebellious, disobedient and neglectful in the work of dissolving a particular ego something in us feels the pinch.

This pinching is not done through an external golden head band but through our essence. Our own essence feels restless and uncomfortable.

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Polish the Brass - (3541)

This old tarnished and oxidised brass pot is us - the human being. It has been sitting outside under the elements for many years in the backyard and now looks nothing like brass.

It once was a gloriously shiny yellow brass pot. Exactly as we were once. But through time, from since the fall we have our light so covered over with personality, mind, karma and the many big fat egos that we have that the sparkle and shine is no where to be found.

So with a bit of work we can restore it back to its former glory.

When we polish or whiten the brass, which is an Alchemical saying, meaning to refine our sexual energy and eliminate our defects, we become a point of reflection as well as a point of light. Just like a star.

That's our daily work on ourselves with the help of the Divine Mother. It takes its time, just like this pot will take a month of daily work to get it shiny. The main thing is daily work!

I started polishing today and with a bit of elbow grease each day it will finally be restored. Will post a picture of the nice and shiny version of it.

Well really who cares about a shiny brass pot someone should comment saying dissolve your ugly pride mate instead.

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Have You Ever Cried for the Soul of Another? - (3537)

I'm sure you have, you have a human heart beating there in your chest.

In a few magic moments an opening appears in ourselves. An opening of a certain tenderness for the soul of another... 

The fibres of our heart exposed, without a shield, tender and sincere, emitting a feeling outside of differences in personality, life circumstances, the past... A feeling powerfully free, with nothing to dampen or obscure it. 

Sometimes though, it is better to keep that feeling quiet as others yet may not understand or appreciate that. But those who know it in themselves will respect it.

For the essence of others and in honour of the love in our own essence, to remember and pray for another is a sublime recognition of  the unity of all of us despite human differences. 

These openings for others are a good sign, yet that within us which opened our heart does not mind whether this is a good sign or not.

Maybe we have cried for someone who we thought was spiraling further and further into a degenerative and painful way of life. Maybe for someone who held nothing back and showed their trust, putting their life on the line but things didn't work out, maybe for someone who suffers and there is no apparent remedy in sight, maybe for someone whose chance at the work can not be fulfilled, maybe for a soul that loved others so much, maybe for a soul that suffered and hated so much, maybe for our inner Divinity that has tried an tried everything to help us, maybe for a soul that in our intimate depths has touched our soul, maybe for a soul that fought with all the heart for life, maybe for a soul that has ... well you feel in the rest... 

No matter where these souls go that we have cried for, doesn't it imply that the closer to unity we are, the closer we are to them, and to encounter them again in the future is the only certain thing. The past is gone, the present is they are near or far. But anyway right now, if we have shed a tear for a soul they are in our heart.

Sorry, here's something, to sober the emotion, m.m.m says that the awakening makes one cruel. Ah what! If we go over some of the many stories to do with the masters we know that there is something apparently of truth in that statement. I want to clarify that a bit - cruel in the sense of cruel to the eyes of others, not that they are cruel. The knowing and the seeing of the masters surpasses the many human emotions, making them silent and a little matter of fact about those things, which people interpret as cruel.

As the consciousness sees beyond the emotions of loss into the future and even beyond time to the Monad, the loss is not really a loss. There is just that time gap to be bridged.

The awakened consciousness trusts in the will of the other soul's Monad, and as the awakened one is freer and freer from time there is little loss, there is just the moment and into this moment the future that awaits will enter when it is time. If there is waiting there is something that is certain to be waited for, isn't there?

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You Can Correct Yourself - (3539)

This is not a bad mantra. 

It is true after all and it is a good mantra to counteract self-compassion and self-deprecation. 

There would be no redemption if we could not evaluate ourselves and correct ourselves. We would not be here as simple as that.

Those egos mentioned above are the ones that always forget the fundamentals. If we remind ourselves that when those dorks are around in our psyche, we can nudge them out of our human machine.

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People Who in the Past Misguided Us - (3538)

I was talking to m.m.m yesterday and he remembers a certain cockatoo that was trained to insult the neighbour using Croatian swear words, whenever that neighbour would be in his backyard. The neighbour become so insulted by it that he filed a complaint that went all the way to court. In the end they had to take the cockatoo to court, let it see the neighbour and have the swear words translated by an official interpreter.

So goes the list of strange cases brought before the courts and official translators.

Anyhow that all brought back memories of a 'bandido' cousin that had a cokatoo and he did the same thing, trained it to say: "Hello cocky, dance cocky and something or rather else".

So that older cousin was one that gave me some misguided lessons in life. I think we have had in one way or another a similar person early on in our lives.

For sure we have to unlearn those lessons and dissolve the impressions and egos that were created or strengthened.

I discovered that such a person's lessons were a powerful catalyst for some negative egoic unfoldings. It is like an ego or two began to unfold physically from that point on. As if those lessons opened the door to our human machine and we had nothing in our defense, no knowledge, or positive influence, no ethics to stop it or curtail it.  

Those points are very important to investigate and comprehend deeply and use as a reference point to dissolve those egos to.

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Liberation Notes: Post 4, No Coming Back Discussed - (3535)

Not Coming Back Discussed

I honestly think it is worth discussing in a bit of detail - this aspect of the topic of liberation that has to do 'with not coming back'. I think it is worth discussing because we can honestly not sit too well with that part of liberation S that says we are not coming back. This in my opinion is due to a bit of a lack of explanation or analysis. So then, with a bit analysis it all changes, the heavy dark clouds part and the sun shines again.

Scared and Upset

Deep down we can be scared of the liberation, and in our subconscious obviously something disagrees with it and in time we can start to feel unhappy with Gnosis, logically because it is taking us somewhere that we are not really happy E about going.

Once again, this situation changes totally when we look into what liberation is. That is, analyse it a bit.

Liberation Reminder

Liberation Master Samael says is processed by way of liberation first from life, from nature and from the cosmos.

Those are the things that we get C liberated from step by step.

Liberation really means to leave behind and escape from something without ever having to go back again if one really does not want to go back. 

This though takes its time, follows its process, and liberation is self-authenticated. It can never authentically happen until we are integrally ready.

Real liberation is a process of unity. Liberation only makes sense when we are united with it.

Imagine we get liberated from something but then there is a part of ourselves that wants to be back in the bottle. That state of liberation would not really be R liberation, would it? It would soon set up in our interior battlefield, where we would feel restless and bitter, exactly how it is when we have the ego.

Liberation in Detail

You know the Catholics believe that there is only one life. So when they die they are going to be liberated from life, nature and creation and be up there in heaven with God. So to them they are not coming back here again and they all seem quite happy with that.

A Monad can win its liberation, and yet for a specific reason it can return to creation in order to fulfill a special mission, and later on return to its liberated E state beyond creation. Master Samael says that such a liberated God is a super atom that contains four seed atoms through which it can project its solar bodies into creation once again.

When it comes time for our liberation what will really tie us down? The people we love may be dead by then. The things that we love about life, such as mountains, lakes, the ocean, forests, trees, the night sky etc. all those things are there still and maybe even better versions of them. In relation to the people we love, we will be one with their Monad and in contact with their Monad. We would in fact have better access and deeper access to them then we ever could while we were on Earth.

Liberation is our destiny no matter what. The Absolute loves us and will at the end of the day give us our liberation, realised or unrealised.

Before we submerge into the absolute we have to go to the Purgatory planet which is unspeakably beautiful. To get there takes a long while and even T when we are there we can be there for a long time dissolving those 'sins of the soul' as Master Samael says.

So really it is not the case that with the final liberation a person is going to die at the end of this life whenever that happens to be and disappear totally out of creation.

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