There are many people in our life that we know need help of one kind or another. Some are really dire, life threatening and some less so.
To light a candle on a small altar and pray for those people at various some times during the day is a mini sacrifice - but it is something that can help them and who are we to deny them of something that could help when they are really in need.
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There are many so called abysses or hells. A certain job could be one, a sickness could be one, an addiction another, an violent and abusive relationship another and then there is the real abyss or hell.
We have the abyss inside of us in our subconscious and infra-conscious and in the bowels of the Earth.
There are many regions in both of these abysses. What links us to each of these regions are our egos.
Each ego represents a section of the abyss and is a mini abyss in itself.
When we are submerged in an ego we are in that section of the abyss, with its very strange and weirdly oppressive flavour. We experience life as if we are in living a subterranean world looking out.
One day we become clear that we descend into that abyss by entertaining those egos that link us there.
One day we decide to radically break free from that abyss.
We decide this because we are fed up of living in that abyss. We feel we can't contiunue on like that and we know in our bones that we can't progress to something new and our karma won't ever get paid.
To attempt to cut free requires the dissolution of those egos that drag us there. First step is to no longer feed those egos. This is a radical and serious step and the most important.
The decision to no longer feed these egos and no longer have anything to do with the impressions, people and activities that are of that abyss (if they are, they may not) in time brings about the elimination of that ego.
We just then need practices of dissolution and deeper comprehension to weaken and weaken that ego until its karma is paid and it can die.
Some new stages of our esoteric life are all held in suspension until we cut away from these abysses.
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The moment is a refuge. The heart temple is another refuge. When assailed by strange emotions and thoughts, seek refuge.
Non-identification allows us the light. When identified one thing becomes in a given moment the 'be all and end all'. Only really our essence has that place to be 'the be and end all'.
To seek the light solves our problems, out and in. Light is intelligence. We can seek light from within and from without.
To seek the light we need to bring our light. Or at least look towards the light and make an effort towards it. This is by the law: reciprocity, correspondence and affinity.
Always seek that which will reply or which is capable of replying to the essence's questions. Those answers are within and in the teachings and in those who live the teachings.
The old outside seeking methods will not satisfy the essence. If they did all of our essences would be overflowing with riches and none of us would be here.
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For all of us working on ourselves, recognising the inner lacks in ourselves, and recognising our outside compensation for those lacks helps a lot and it does help fill them in a certain way but honestly we are still like in our physical constitution left not quite fulfilled. This is all because we didn't practice!
From our comprehension we may find that we lack a value of the essence, that is something that we have always been searching for, or we may find that we lack something such as force, light etc. but what happens is that we normally don't go further, we usually leave things there at the point of comprehension, but the intimate fact remains we are not quite fulfilled and the thing is we can go and compensate for that again later on.
We have to go to practice, go to do a mystical practice, a transmutation practice, a prayer kneeling, a massive long KRIM at the feet of the Divine Mother etc., a good meditation etc. We just have to practice, that is integrate into the motor centre and that impregnates our physical constitution. When we compensate we do it always with the motor centre, we eat, we go shopping, we watch TV all with the motor centre. So we have to do the same use the motor centre but in the way of the Being. We just have to tell ourselves: do it and then go do it!
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♻Process of: "development, construction, progression, improvement, advance, edifying, dignifying etc."
♻This process is in action in every aspect of life.
♻It is the process that takes us to adulthood.
♻It is the process by which life develops.
♻It is a force in nature that is round and has a limit. It does not extend linearly ever upwards.
♻It exists in a cycle with its opposite process involution.
♻It is what grows and has its natural beginning with the birth of something.
♻Its role is to take life to involution.
♻It is nature's gift to us for us to experience life in the quality of growing, strength, vitality and accumulating.
♻While under the process of evolution certain centres are more active in us than others than when we enter evolution. Such as the motor centre, the sexual centre which hold the first two expressions of life (birth and movement).
♻Life is about accumulating, death is about liberating.
♻The reverse process to evolution. Atrophying, decaying, degrading, withering, wearing out, decreasing, diminishing etc.
♻It is a force in nature that is round and has a limit. It does not extend linearly ever downwards.
♻It exists in a cycle with its opposite process evolution.
♻It is a force in nature that is round and has a limit. It does not extend linearly ever downwards.
♻It exists in a cycle with its opposite process evolution.
♻Its role is to take life to evolution.
♻It is nature's gift to us, for us to experience life in the quality of letting go, releasing, giving up...
♻While under the process of involution certain centres are more active in us than others, when we enter involution. Such as the intellectual centre and the emotional centre which allow the reflection, the understanding and appreciation of life.
♻Life is about accumulating, death is about liberating.
♻Two opposite processes. Expression of the Law of Duality. They comprise the wheel of Samsara. These two forces work on all the scales. On a cosmic scale, on an individual scale and on a planetary scale. On a planetary scale we have the Wheel of Samsara.
♻108 lives as a human being we have. How many as a plant, animal, mineral we don't know. It may depend on how many lives are needed to dissolve the "I's" we have created.
♻The occult reason for 108 lives is because we have the pluralised "I". No “I’s” no successive lives.
♻In the time of 108 lives we are given ample opportunities to initiate our revolution, which is our awakening, which is self-realisation.
♻We have 108 lives because: 9 x 12 = 108, which means gestating in the womb of the zodiac. According to theory or the archetype of equality in evolution we are given 9 lives in each zodiac to experience each planetary influence and to help us as one zodiac influence maybe for in particular more favourable for us to achieve self-realisation than others.
♻If we do not attempt our revolution, because a limit has to be imposed on the ego, which are a conjunct of good and bad values, the creator has put in place a certain mechanism whereby the "I's'" we have created are dissolved. Dissolved involuntarily.
♻After our 108th life we die physically and our essence enters the state of animal, then later the state of vegetable then later the state of mineral.
♻This process is to cause the "I's" that we created to be broken down.
♻Our essence can enter the physical body of an animal, yet our state of consciousness will be that of animal and we will be connected to the abyss. Because the states of animal states belong to the abyss.
♻There are involuting and evolving animals, plants and minerals species. Perhaps the animals on the signs of the Zodiac are evolving.
♻We enter the bowels of the Earth - the so called infra-dimensions where the egos that we have slowly break down and we are transformed into free essence.
♻As we evolve from having had all the essence in us free we evolute through the abyss through the states of mineral, plant and animal once again until we reach the human state.
♻The human being state is the state that has the three brains and there the three forces or the Law of three by which that human being can create its own inner universe.
♻Animals and plants have only two and one brains, with which they can not create.
♻Depending on the heaviness of the ego, a person's stay in the abyss could be several hundred years. If there is a lot of karma and the egos are very heavy the stay can be 1000's of years.
♻The solar bodies take many hundred years to be dissolved and they must be dissolved if an essence with the solar bodies enters the abyss.
♻ We are given 3000 turns on the wheel of Samsara before we enter the Great Spirit of Life and return to our Monad self-conscious but without self-realisation. To be happy we need self-consciousness. We become a happy Buddha elemental.
♻Evolution is not an increasing upward trend as commonly believed. If it were so it would break the free will of the human being.
♻Evolution does not change us fundamentally. It changes our physical body but inwardly we remain the same. Evolution does not operate on our essence or in other words it does not operate on our psychology which is what we are. It does not awaken our consciousness.
♻It would be unfair to change us radically against our will wouldn't it? The creator is not a tyrant He has given us free will to be what we want to be inwardly.
♻Evolution takes us so far. It has a limit. To go beyond that limit we need revolution.
♻Revolution acts on our inward psychological nature, providing us with a total radical change.
♻When we change inside we also change outside of ourselves.
♻As society is the sum of the individual, changing ourselves we change society, and later the world. The world needs a revolution of consciousness, more than anything else.
♻Revolution of the consciousness breaks us free from this cycle of Samsara.
♻When we escape the wheel of Samsara, the law of 108 lives no longer applies.
♻The Law of 108 is not rigid. It is flexible, if the essence is developing, that is, liberating itself, the essence is given more time to complete its work.
♻It is not bad to know which life we are in. It is not necessary but good to know to give us motivation. If we are working giving our best we have little to worry about.
♻There are certain signs that we can know when a person is in his/her last life. A post has been written about that.
♻I once heard spoken by a very knowledgeable source, that as long as the blue light of the essence is shining in the person, that person is not sent down to the abyss to involute.
♻An essence can be rescued from the abyss. After the second Dantean circle it becomes very difficult that an essence is rescued. This is because the process of involution and degeneration accelerates too rapidly.
♻In the 8th Dantean circle is where the second death occurs for the essence. The Divine Mother completes Her work of having dissolved the ego in the abyss.
♻In any way up or down, our Divine Mother never abandons us. She is always with us. She just polarises Herself to help us in whatever direction we are going.
♻We escape Samsara when we dissolve the “I’s” we have.
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There's a point where an ego is just a pest. We really want to be at peace and it brings its same suggestions, thoughts, images, impulses to us all the way through the day.
It's sort of like a mosquito. So with a mosquito we usually spray it, which is best no more pesky mossie, or we apply some repellent or go inside the house. The same for us with this pesky little ego.
Spray it dead with the help of the Divine Mother and KRIM, generate a strong force field of inner will and determination, or self-remember and go to the heart temple.
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We may instinctively think it will help us be more conscious, or solve things, or make us feel better, but we are not right in thinking that.
Only like draws like. To be more conscious we need the consciousness.
There is no point in going into eating, sleeping, drinking, shopping, music dreaming and other ways of dreaming, video games, TV, movies, internet, YouTube etc. because they all push our consciousness further away, and we can't get the light and force we so desperately need.
When a person has vices, they tend to turn to these for help. But they are not good helpers at all. When we have little vices we become passive to the consciousness which is not much of a help. We have to make ourselves active to the consciousness, open to it to make the right conditions for it to appear in us.
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We try earnestly to be conscious when we totally need it. When it is as necessary as air for us. When nothing else is any good and offers us only confusion. Then we really really seek the consciousness.
There are many things to do.
One is to select our thoughts. Let so many thoughts go. There are so many thoughts that are not helpful. Following those thoughts is even more 'not helpful'.
Concerning an issue, there are many lines of thinking or logical processes that are not helpful either. We can select to think other thoughts or chose to them let go and not think.
We need to make in ourselves the right conditions for our consciousness to appear. Otherwise it just won't appear.
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We need help from our interior Divinity for so many things. We need help. We do the work alone. Every person who has finished the work, all the great masters had help.
As a general rule I find the more conscious we can be, the better state are in, and the more we are helping ourselves, and the more we are prepared to receive and understand the help that may come.
We at times want something magical. A magic wand to be waved, and all our troublesome, obscure thoughts and emotions made clear and understood...
We may get that help at the wave of a magic wand or maybe it appears in time or happens in a very different way or happens totally incognito...
Thinking, protesting, comparing, complaining doesn't help... This does not draw the help we need closer to us.
We have to try to make ourselves the most conscious that we can be to get that magic help we need.
To not think at all and to pray. Keeping our mind as clear as possible for as long as possible is the best advice we can give ourselves.
Do it all day long if necessary...
We must also do our part, search, investigate, understand, clear our mind, keep calm, keep upright and keep constant. If we are the opposite of these things it is so hard that the help we need can come to us consciously, as a revelation, as light, as a bolt comprehension... Instead it may come as pain...
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When we start we believe in the Divine Mother, Her existence in us makes sense but we don't really know Her or experience Her or relate to Her in an alive direct way.
We need to use our imagination to see Her, to talk to Her, to feel Her presence.
Our imagination is a medium for Her to relate to us, for Her to talk to us, by transmitting light, love, and Her help to us.
So we need to everyday, many times a day imagine Her as powerfully and vividly as we can. Chose whatever representation that allows us to do this.
Then after we I don't know have built up something like a bridge or channel or I don't know what is in our imagination we will see that representation take life, or new details about Her start to appear in our imagination, ever so subtly and naturally.
We must open our heart to Her, pray to Her, explain all our concerns, yearnings, She always helps us but all that I can say is that She becomes a stronger power in us when we imagine Her, pray to Her, love Her many times everyday. Her help in our psychological work really improves, She really becomes a power of psychological transformation in us.
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Skepticism does that. It says that the past is the same as the present and the future will be like the past. That is no changes, the same things continuing forward.
It does not recognise nor accept the changes already made and because of that it can't see those changes working ahead of itself in the future.
This is skepticism related to our esoteric work.
Our first step to overcome skepticism is to see it in action. See how we see a future of nothing happening and how we project that onto the future of ourselves and others and how we don't accept the progress of others and ourselves as real.
Once we see it in action, we can know that it is plain old skepticism, and then we can begin counteracting it by accepting and recognising our own work. When we do that we can begin to modify that skepticism and replace it bit by bit with conscious faith.
We will then naturally become encouraging and optimistic about the work of others. This is very important for the Gnostic person to be happy, because the skeptical attitude is to see those in Gnosis as trying to change but mostly pretending, and because of that the skeptical gnostic is very distrusting and bitter. This is not a very good way to be and really is worth making the effort to change.
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Whenever I hear a boaster in the esoteric studies I tell myself: "Oh no - best wishes, may all go well".
No one is a constant hero - triumphing all the time. In the long run, as a trend, yes yes yes, that is true the Being is a triumpher.
It is a law that every exaltation is preceded by a humiliation and the one who has worked on him or herself for a while knows that feelings of strength don't last long before we are hit and sent back to work hard.
So one learns after a while to be humble, enjoy a rest for a while after a long battle but be wary that always a descent or a humiliation is needed to progress further and it is never far away.
The serpent, the sexual force is exactly like that. It is so wiley, we can defeat its impulses and temptations but then one day thinking we are heroes we can lower our guard and it can so silently creep in and all of a sudden we can find ourselves with some reckoning of forces and energies to deal with.
If we lack a bit of alertness but we are diligent and apply the right keys it is ok when it comes to facing the wiley serpent.
The thing is, we always find it difficult when we don't apply the keys. We have to tell ourselves: "forget this inaction, this dreaming, transmute now, do it now!" and go and do it and in a few minutes we have the solution well within our hands.
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What are carnal passions really?
Master Samael mentions that term "carnal passion" often in his books, as does Dante Algieri in the "Inferno" part of his literary work: "The Divine Comedy".
They are an itch that is felt in the body and we apply our passion or enthusiasm to scratch that itch.
Passion is not a bad thing, it is essentially enthusiasm. It is just where we apply our passion is the question.
If we put our passion into dissolving an ego we get some good results. If we apply it into pursuing a desire we get that desire fulfilled etc. which is maybe good maybe bad depending.
There is wisdom in that teaching that says we must chose our passions, our enthusiasms. A conscious person is always one who has before him or her the freedom to chose!
The thing about carnal passions, is that they are itches that the body feels (hence carnal), so we can feel them consciously, and then decide what to do with them. We don't need to blindly pour our enthusiasm into getting them scratched in a mechanically egoical way that won't help us.
We can remove our attention from the itch, we can transmute our sexual energy, as most of these 'itches' are messages from our body telling us that the sexual energy is rising and we need to transmute.
In the end we are the ones who hold our enthusiasm and we can chose where we apply them. We certainly don't have to be ruled by mechanical tendencies, memories, pictures of comfort, pleasure etc. and allow our enthusiasm to be applied as they dictate! Let the work and our consciousness dictate!
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This post follows on from a previous post about conditioning factors. Personal sufferings is a conditioning factor occupying a place in a long list. It is a very powerful conditioning factor and for that reason alone merits a closer look. Hence this post.
💘Let's look for them inside of ourselves. We honestly have them even if we think that we don't.
💘We don't have them until we have consciously looked, found and worked on them until they have been dissolved. Until then they lurk within us.
💘They are things that easily make us to suffer right now in a few minutes. They are things that in the past have made us suffer. Rejection, abandonment, humiliation, physical abuse, betrayal, deceit, exclusion etc.
💘Because of the suffering that we felt in the past, powerful memories were made. These memories tell us "don't repeat that". Avoid that!
💘Because these personal sufferings are memory, these memories occupy a place in our mind. These memories being painful are powerful and by the Law of Affinity operating in the mental world they produce thoughts and beliefs. Beliefs such as: "there must be something a miss with me", "why so much suffering", "how unfortunate I am", "how much I give and get nothing good back" etc.
💘Personal sufferings create fear or aversion.
💘The factors of personal sufferings lie in waiting within our subconscious. Not too deep within our subconscious. They can leave the subconscious in an instant and exert their influence.
💘These conditioning factors appear quickly and impose a way of seeing and interpreting. Because of these conditioning factors we can't see something in a different other way.
💘These conditioning factors often produce an exaggerated response in us.
💘These conditioning factors influence they way we think. Freeing ourselves means that we forget the past, we are able to see present things independent of the past, our current thinking is not influenced by aversion and inner fighting and our mental background is lighter free of that backdrop of suffering.
💘These conditioning factors repeat the statements: 'how I have suffered" and "I am going to suffer". These conditioning factors always work to make their mission statement happen.
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The solar plexus is very important and worth a dedicated study. This post is only a prelude to such a study that if so desired one can take up.
🌞The solar plexus is a very intelligent centre and it is more than worthy of being called a brain.
🌞There is a very strong link between the brain and the solar plexus.
🌞The solar plexus is where our energy is stored. It is our own personal battery.
🌞Master Samael says that the solar plexus is where all the energy that we transmute accumulates.
🌞The umbilical chord is connected to our solar plexus. The womb is located in the solar plexus, and Master Samael says that any "I" that we create is formed in our solar plexus.
🌞It has much to do with formation and life. It is called solar because it is related to the sun and the sun is the one which makes life possible.
🌞In the solar plexus through action of something which Master Samael calls the ideoplastic (a power of forming via imaging present in the solar plexus) and with the accumulated sexual energy new "I's" are formed.
🌞When for some reason, we suffer a shock or a great impact the accumulated energy in our solar plexus is discharged or depleted and we become all weak, shaky at the knees and want nothing more than to collapse or lie down.
🌞The best feeling of well-being we can have is when our solar plexus is charged with energy. Naturally being charged with energy we feel a very deep relaxation of the solar plexus area. When our energy levels are low we feel agitated, restless, unable to concentrate and are easily irritated.
🌞This is why we naturally guard our solar plexus because if someone would want to deplete our energy the best chance that they would have is to do it via our solar plexus.
🌞The solar plexus charged with energy, feeds the brain.
🌞The solar plexus receives information and connects us to many different networks of information.
🌞The solar plexus is a radar receiving dish that receives various kinds of radiations and mental waves from the cosmos and the Earth.
🌞It is very different to the mind. It is what really penetrates. It is also related to emotion. Its element is fire. Master Samael says that the emotional centre is the one which allows us more comprehension and allows us to go deeper. So the solar plexus plays its part in that too.
🌞Using the Choc Mool practice mentioned in the Perfect Matrimony by Master Samael we can charge our solar plexus up with energy. If we charge our solar plexus up with energy we also charge up our whole body.
🌞The solar plexus is related to fire and the emotional centre. The solar plexus allows us to penetrate into the object of mediation much easier. The brain can only name things, organise things, imagine things but the solar plexus allows us to feel that thing, which is a new kind of knowledge, very different to what the brain can capture. Fire is universal and the solar plexus is capable of capturing the universal essence of things.
🌞Via the solar plexus we can perceive the conversations and musings of people that we know. we can know what they are thinking before they actually tell us. We can perceive someone coming to visit us through our solar plexus.
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So many things make a leader. Values is one of them. A person naturally becomes a leader when he or she has held up high, a certain value against great odds. The value of dong this is a kind of moral force that commands respect and invisibly maintains a group marching together.
One of the avenues the force to lead comes from, is having upheld a value, having defeated many obstacles inside of oneself that tempted one to lower that value to the common.
Leadership in any area is not for the one weak in values as there is no force to lead people to the higher value.
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Above the horizon there is a full 180° of options and things to do. There is no reason to go below the horizon. We are more than guaranteed to find something restful, refreshing and fulfilling above the horizon.
Often people having worked hard for a while seek a kind of a break and for the one working on him or herself with spiritual goals, above the horizon is always the better choice.
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There are many factors in our psyche that really restrict us. These factors are what we can call conditioning factors.
This post aims at describing in general what a conditioning factor is and what it does within us.
🚩Conditioning factors are inside of us, not outside.
🚩Each conditioning factor in us has an origin.
🚩In essence a conditioning factor is not the natural way of our psyche. It is something foreign.
🚩It essentially distorts the way we would normally process things.
🚩It can be functioning inside of us all the time or only at certain times.
🚩It implies a set way or narrow way of thinking, feeling and acting.
🚩It can be that it functions in us to produce a reaction, or it could be something always functioning conditioning our thoughts before any impression is received.
🚩A conditioning factor functions to produce a known response or reaction. A conditioning factor implies a programming, a limitation, a restriction etc.
🚩A conditioning factor can best be understood comparing it to an air conditioner. An air conditioner takes in the air from inside a room, cools or warms it and then releases it back into the room. a conditioning factor works the same way in our mind. It takes something in distorts it and outputs it.
🚩A conditioning factor takes an impression that enters our mind and puts it into some kind of psychological machinery that inevitably controls the way we relate to, respond to and react to that impression.
🚩Because of our sleeping conditioning most of our thinking contains elements of fantasy. Because of our conditioning if we are reprimanded we take it as an personal attack etc. So many examples like this.
🚩The number of conditioning factors within us are numerous. One of the biggest and most common is fantasy as well as relativity and duality.
🚩To be conditioned means to respond in a programmed way. There is a lack of free will.
🚩The conditioned way of responding does not organically adapt to reality. It is immune to change. It's responses are often maladapted to reality.
🚩The conditioning restricts the consciousness. Not allowing it freedom to manifest.
🚩Behind the conditioning is mainly the memory of a suffering that is the conditioning tries to avoid.
🚩There is a logic behind the conditioning. There is always a reason behind it. It is in place for a reason.
🚩Finding the reason behind it helps to greatly dissipate the conditioning.
🚩The conditioning becomes a very entrenched habit that proves hard to break, but it can be done.
🚩Conditioning factors do not necessarily have to be an ego.
🚩Conditioning factors principally affect the consciousness.
🚩When we are under a conditioning factor we are asleep.
🚩We work on conditioning factors as we do any ego. Asking for the help of the Divine Mother.
🚩Each conditioning factor has a mission statement. The conditioning factors are strong in that they really function to make good their mission statement. They are in place to make good their mission statement. they are not there in our psyche just to be there like decoration etc. They are really there to make our psychic life difficult, by restricting our consciousness.
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All the force, energy, wisdom etc. comes from below!
How strange but so true. That's why it is so important to work below to transform and purify below. With the purification of it comes out its true values to shine.
The Kundalini comes from below, the sexual force comes from below, the energy from our digested food comes from below, light comes from below from within the abyss, purity comes from below, the realisation of the Being comes from below, and the list goes on...
Even the Gods come from below. They are all master Samael says gestated within the abyss.
Things above are sustained by the transformation of the below.
The work of purifying our Jesod goes directly in a straight line to our Kether to the crown of our tree of life. The purer our Jesod the more light Kether has in his halo, and consequently the more light he has within us, so says the Kabbalah.
Where does our Being's realization come from? From us and we are below.
The moral of this story is to not roll in the mud below but descend into and consciously transform it. Big difference between the two. Roll too deeply in the mud and you may never get out, and if you do you will have to clean yourself off if nothing else for years.
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Another post along a similar line to the previous one. Writing carefully, choosing my words. I'm not writing for anyone's lust here, but for the comprehension of the essence in relation to this topic.
The normal way of functioning of the lustful brute ego/egos is to see an opportunity of something in the field of sensuality, and generate in the brain the thought that it as an opportunity to be pursued, taken etc. This ego sees it as a way to get a hold of the 'so popularly desired' sensuality, which promises sensations in the sexual centre and emotions in the emotional centre which it sees as highly desirable, good, fulfilling, satisfying, comforting etc. according to all the conditioning in the world.
(As an aside the brute ego has never really experienced the superior sensations of the sexual center operating outside of desire - if it did it would change its beliefs that those 'so desired' sensations in the sexual centre are the most desirable thing).
The brute ego rapidly impulses the sexual centre into activation and the brute ego moves towards its object of desire. Of course all very selfish and all based on very narrow, ignorant and brutish thinking. I say ignorant because this thinking ignores the way the true values of his own essence works in his human machine. These values are his essential human nature that even though he is ignoring them right now, one day he will have to recognise them and reckon with them.
If the man recognises his brutish intentions and resists, then later the brute ego/s will try again appealing to his emotions, painting in a positive light the prospect of pleasant emotions. This idea passes onto the emotional centre and the emotional centre gives its support, impulsing the sexual centre into action and once again the brute moves towards his target. This new strategy is especially pronounced when there is some kind of emotional wound or deficiency present in the person that he is looking to relieve the discomfort of.
When dealing with so many egos patience is the key because among many qualities it is largely endurance, which gives us the amazing power to deal with these emotional issues that we often try to alleviate in the wrong way making things worse for us. As these ways do not deal with the cause but only the symptoms and the means of these ways produce inconvenient side effects, just how drinking numbs the discomfort but harms the body, problems often easily arise and they take on a more complicated dimension and so on and so on.
The solution lies in using the emotional centre, bringing it into the dynamic. But bringing the emotional centre into the dynamic vibrating in the right way or containing the right values. Brain and sex function together and the emotional centre gives its support or disapproval. If the right values be in the emotional centre those values of the essence will cause the brain to modify its thinking and upon doing that it will modify its impulses to the sexual centre. Then it will seek a better more edifying way to deal with the sexual centre if needed.
The emotional centre is the balance point of the human machine and it is the determining factor so many times. If we put the right values into it, it will lead our actions according those values. Sometimes it takes a lot to learn what the right values are. Those values are not at all foreign to us they are innate in us and come from our own essence. Whereas the false values don't come from us they are borrowed from magazines, articles, media, other people, society, etc.
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Here are some practical work points.
Obviously the post has been written from a man's point of view, however it applies just the same to a woman. Because it is to do with principles.
So a man sees a woman and feels some attraction, desire or anything else we wish to call it. Depending on the level of being of the man, this can happen all the time (brute stone black waters) or once in a while (refining, cleaning the waters), and the level (intensity) and quality (more sexual, more emotional) of attraction will vary etc. etc. blah blah all that stuff!
Anyway Gnosis teaches one to be conscious and intelligent about that. Not to reject it, suppress it or think it wrong. Gnosis says the key is to know, comprehend deeply and apply the teachings about that.
If one is observant one will notice the presence of a new energy in him or herself. The attraction that was felt, actually brought forth this new energy. In fact one is now experiencing a state of heightened energy. And this, if one is wise, is very useful.
Everyone values energy and wants more of it. But because we are so badly educated when it comes to the sexual energy we don't know how to really use it.
Gnosis would say feel the presence of that new energy, be aware of it and value it, know that it is really a gift, because that energy can be circulated throughout your whole body flowing into your brain and consciousness to heal and rejuvenate your body and brighten your awareness.
Then with feeling better in our body and brighter in our brain we can give the gift that we received back to the world through our service and good works.
Doing that a person finds self-fulfilment in their Being as they have with love enhanced their inner Being with energy and have helped those outside of themselves. They are also then nourished by their own love rather than being left let-down and confused by having naively expected love from another and of course not gotten it.
So even the world benefits. This is how we then convert that sexual energy into heart and emotion.
When we don't, by breathing, imagination and will, make that energy to flow or circulate, what usually happens is that energy gets stuck in the sexual centre or the brain. The brain and the sexual centre are two opposite poles. Like north and south.
Poles are there in us, to make currents of life flow, not to stagnate the flow of currents. Whenever something stagnates in us there are problems and impurities. Water must flow to stay pure, clear and crystalline. If water stays still it stagnates and turns rotten.
If the energy is stuck in the sexual centre that energy just concentrates on an appendage which does not have any practical use while walking down the street for example, and if it goes to the brain which it is always does, it becomes fantasy which is not good for anything either.
So to circulate it is how we should approach it and that is how we give a nice gift to ourselves and to humanity. That is also how we convert that energy into awareness and heart. If we have the yearning for awareness and heart then circulating the sexual energy makes all the sense in the world.
CIRCULATE IT! CIRCULATING IT TRANSFORMS IT and then we GIFT OURSELVES and OTHERS!
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Allow or work to give victory to the right thing in you!
Allow the right thing to remain forefront in you! Ruling your thinking and feeling.
We lose it, its gets dethroned. Only notice and bring it back.
To bring it back is not impossible. We had it there a little while ago, we can bring it back again.
With the essence there at the forefront, remembering its Father-Mother it can enter into our thinking and feeling.
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| When I yearn for the Divine Mother in Her strength I like to imagine Her as above. |
When it is present in our thinking and feeling we can face many things in order, in balance, in control, with wisdom, we can feel optimism, and we can dispel fantasy (positive or negative).
I am practicing this. It helps a lot. I think everyone's Divine Mother is powerful. The more strength of attention we give her the more present She can be.
She's like fire, if we blow on the fire, if we fuel it right, it intensifies. Energy brings energy. Like attracts like.
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Some notes about the lecture topic of Karma.
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| Aussie Boomerang - is like karma, we throw it and it comes back. |
⚓Karma - Sanskrit word meaning cause and effect.
⚓It is the magic force that ties causes to their effects.
⚓The Law of Karma says that there are no coincidences. All has a cause.
⚓If there is an effect by the law of karma there is a cause.
⚓Create causes to set up effects. If we want a certain effect to happen we must provide the cause. This is immutable. It could be an effect in our inner life or outer life.
⚓It is eternal and formidable. Nothing is exempt from it Nirvana , karma and space are eternal, the Buddha said.
⚓It is also known as the Law of Balance or Equilibrium. the balance of the Cosmic, the human, the world, the physical, the psychological etc.
⚓Balance is one of the most important laws in the universe. Without karma or balance the Universe would fall into disarray.
⚓It has been charged with the defined function of keeping all things in balance.
⚓Karma forms a chain of cause and effect. There is a cause which produces an effect and that effect becomes the cause of a new effect and so on and so on.
⚓Karmic debts. They exist and we create them by upsetting the balance.
⚓The normal human being has so many karmic debts. Totally rare is it for anyone to have none.
⚓We create them due to having our consciousness being asleep.
⚓The consciousness sees cause and effect and knows the balance and sees the balance and abides by the balance. Because it knows well that imbalance brings pain.
⚓We accrue karmic debts for the bad actions and for the good actions we don't do.
⚓To be free one has to arrive at the state of not owing and not being owed. Adeptus Exemptus.
⚓We all have karmic debts. One of the goals of Gnosis is to lead the aspirant to pay all these debts.
⚓Dharma: Sanskrit word for compensation. Cosmic capital. Do good works to accrue dharma.
⚓Having cosmic capital - dharma we can pay for all that we need. Not having it can mean dire straits, while having it means being saved from dire straits.
⚓Holds the explanation to the 'why' and 'how' of the things of our life.
⚓Different types of karma. There are several different types. Very useful information. Especially that which says karma is negotiable.
Katancy (superior karma of the awakened), kama-duro (non-negotiable), karma-saya (links due to sex).
⚓Karma is processed at different levels.
Processed on the level of: the individual, a family, a nation, a planet etc.
⚓It has a mechanical aspect and a negotiable aspect.
Divinely administered. Divine Tribunal, with 42 judges and the high Priest Anubis - the 43rd judge.
⚓By contacting the Divine aspect of Karma we can modify circumstances.
⚓Karmic instruments. Don't become a karmic instrument which is used by the Law to make others to suffer.
⚓Karmic circumstances which are: illness, delays, impediments, difficulties, conflicts are the vehicles of karma.
⚓Karma has a special flavour, through which we can easily recognize that we are under karma.
⚓Karma operates in time and space. We see this perfectly in recurrences.
⚓When we work on ourselves we open up a new karmic line for ourselves, distinct to our present mechanical line of not working on ourselves.
⚓If we are sick, work to heal others to accrue the merit to heal ourselves.
⚓To find balance we need to get unbalanced first then we can find balance knowing what unbalanced is like.
⚓Karma is a medicine for the soul. It is not an oppression or punishment but a medicine to bring us back to balance.
⚓There is no one punishing us but ourselves. If we are always balanced karma will never touch us.
⚓We mainly get karma for what we say and do. We don't get physical karma for our thoughts. We with our thoughts though initiate certain internal processes that later can become feelings and actions and then karma or dharma results.
⚓So important it is to learn from our own karmic processes.
⚓We fully complete the karmic process when we learn where the pain is and why it is there. Then we pay knowingly and we won't repeat that conduct or action or say those words. Karma makes us conscious.
⚓Karma shows us the truth of unity. We hit someone. It is not long before we are hit back exactly the same. Showing us to hit someone is to hit ourselves.
⚓We need to learn to trust in Justice. If we are wronged leave it to the Law. All human beings are affected by justice and have these issues of justice affect their lives at some point. This point is valuable wisdom to all of us. If only we are able to trust that is. Karma teaches us trust.
⚓Don't take justice into your own hands. Trust in it and leave it to the powers which are above to solve/balance.
⚓The main fight with karma is light. Not being able to see. Karma confuses and blinds us. That is really where the main suffering is, in not knowing, in not seeing. Awakening our consciousness is the main remedy for karma.
⚓Because we don't see the cause, we think we are being punished. We feel life, nature, people, God are all against us. But it is not life, people or God but it was our own selves. All because we can't see.
⚓The three best ways to pay karma are awakening, transmuting and uniting.
⚓In unity there is balance. Perfect stability or equipoise or balance.
⚓All three factors combined together pay the maximum. Though the first factor of mystical death pays the most of all three.
⚓Karma is round. Just like time is round. Because when there is karma it must come back to us. If it were not round, say it were linear we would escape from it. Karma uses the roundness of time.
⚓Balance is not an amorphous thing. It is not to be between two opposites but to chose one and remain at the centre of that chosen option.
⚓We have most of our karma from past lives. That is the most important karma to pay. It takes precedence over the karma in this life.
⚓It is a good sign when we see the debts from this life coming to us to be paid. Meaning we have cleared a lot of karma from the past.
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Sometimes due to circumstances we get swamped psychologically with problems and stress etc. we can start to forget the work, the Being, the essence, the knowledge and its like we see ourselves drifting further and further away from the shore into the lonely, barren and unrelenting deep sea.
We just have to say "Ah #$%& these problems, stress and hurry" and swim back to shore. Connect back again to the work, to the knowledge, read, study and practice again.
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| In other words don't let life's circumstances make you fall asleep. |
Stop, hit the brake and seek the Divinity within! Maybe we lose this or that but it may not be worth losing our work, our consciousness for.
Obviously we need help when we are in these times or states, and to let ourselves helplessly drift out to sea going far away from our Inner Divinity where all our light, life and love is, is silly! Because that is exactly the same as crying out for help yet at the same time running away from it.
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Here is something new to do with polarities between us and our Divinity.
When masculine and feminine come together, each one becomes active in its nature. The masculine becomes active and emissive and the feminine becomes passive and receptive. Right got it, can't deny that.
So if you are a man and you want more of the qualities of the masculine in a given moment, then you are wanting your masculine principle to rise and so then we must pray and connect to our Divine Mother, to the eternal feminine. Because when we connect to Her, She being the eternal Divine feminine, the masculine principle in us becomes active. Then praying to Her asking for those qualities makes us to receive them. We think that we should pray to the heavenly Father in secret for those masculine qualities but praying to the Father does not quite do that, it makes other qualities more active in a man.
If we are a man and we need tenderness, care, consideration in a given moment for an activity or interaction etc. we need to pray to the Father, because we want the feminine part of ourselves to take a bit more precedence in us.
The same applies to a woman. If we are a woman and we want to balance our feminine qualities out a bit with strength, courage, activity then we are looking for the masculine qualities in us and so we must pray to the Divine Mother, because with that connection to her She will make them more active.
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Here are some ways that our mind tries to get rid of the unpleasant thoughts, emotions and sensations that arise in us.
Just before I list them, if we know what our mind does we can switch to what our essence does. Sounds promising doesn't it?
The mind uses aversion. Aversion is not the best strategy in dealing with the unpleasant. But the mind still uses it.
The feelings of aversions are contraction, discouragement, self-pity and bargaining.
The remedy is to be totally clear and open to the arising and feeling of it. Consciously watching it, conscious attention.
If we don't open up fully to it, we feel fear, then it gets worse, and we start to ask how long will it last and we feel even more nervous.
We can use bargaining in our mind. We think: "I'll work on it, observe it, understand it and be conscious of it and open to it if it goes away". This does not cure it.
The remedy to aversion once again is clear conscious openness. Recognition without judgment.
To be open means to not even see what hurts or bothers us as a block, or as something harmful.
When we think we will practice to get rid of a block. We are still in a kind of aversion. We need the most powerful non-judgement capacity to be totally open.
Everything on the level of mind and emotion in us is impermanent, all these unpleasant emotions come and go.
We get aversion with the past and with things that have not happened yet. We paint these scenarios and images in our mind and then we get scared of what we paint.
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When a disturbing or unpleasant thought arises with an awfully unpleasant emotion we look for comfort.
We do this instinctively. I think it is good to try to make that instinctive escaping more conscious.
Usually we look for something quite engaging that will take our attention completely away from that thought and emotion or conflict or problem.
We think that being more conscious in these moments of escape will just make things worse or be too much.
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| Good example: now that's a tempting escape, take a hot bath with that view. |
Well first we have to try and see if that is really true.
We know why we go to watch YouTube because it means relaxing and interesting and comforting etc. But our essence feels like that as well, except that it is consciously relaxing, open, novel and comforting?
Being conscious we can get some insight into it. To transform it. If we can see into it a bit we can question it and not make it so unpleasant. We can see that it is an exaggeration, a projection etc.
If we transform it, we are a bit more conscious and we can deal with it better next time and if we are more conscious we are getting more relaxed in the true sense.
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Desire has many different forms. We need to know this because without knowing we can't cure anything. So they range from an life overtaking obsession to attachment, to addictive craving, to recurrent fantasy to a passing want of something.
Desire comes from the pleasant nature. We experienced a pleasant thing and so we desire it again.
Where is desire taking us? Is a good question to ask ourselves!
Desire does not satisfy us! This we have to know. We have to know this down to our bones.
Not to be driven or caught up by desire. This is our goal to do with working on desire.
Joy of renunciation. Is a good means to work on desire.
Addiction to a desire is the burden and renunciation is the freedom. We must see renunciation as the freedom. Normally we see desire as the freedom to seek comfort. But renunciation is the freedom and the joy.
Desiring everything is hell. Peace is letting things pass by.
Desire distracts, detracts and disturbs. Imagine watching all these TV commercials and desiring everything that is advertised, that would be so awful. Letting them pass by is freedom and peace.
Commercials in the mind are what harm us. Well forget TV we have commercials going on in our own mind and that is what we desire the most.
Fulfilling a desire can lead to more suffering. We need discernment to know that and find that out. Desire promises happiness but it neve delivers. We have to know this in our bones. We have enough experience to draw upon.
The worst illness to cure is the one caused by the remedy. Which is all about desire. The illness is desire but then we take the object which we desire to cure ourselves but it does not cure us. It makes us to desire more and more. So to cure desire we have to use a different remedy! Divine Mother!!!
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So I've just finished writing this weird post. I'm asking myself where did this came from, obviously from me, but why, I'm not in that difficulty. Anyway here it is maybe someone will get some benefit from it.
Before reading it is good to know, that there are many binges from the subtle (thinking, fantasy, planning etc.) to the gross (drinking, gambling, sex etc.), they all really are the same, except for their consequences, but leaving each one of them follows the same principles.
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| That's an impressive breakfast. |
The binger, deeply underneath it all wants self-control. The binger yearns deep deep down to find the special key within him or herself that will cure him/her and give him/her that control. Not that control of sheer will power but the control of deep comprehension that fuses nicely into the very essence of the person healing that gaping and aching wound or that strange something that escapes us.
Having not found it, the binger dives in again hoping to find it, believing it is to be found in the depth of the mud. Even believing hitting rock bottom will provide the key. Sometimes that is not enough the wound is still there. Waiting to be healed with that special key. Well, maybe rock bottom can show us what we really want for ourselves and that the mud is not salvation or happiness but the key still evades us.
Diving again hoping to do better next time to redeem that lost self-control but that doesn't work either. The method is all wrong. The intention is there but the method wrong.
The keys of others helps a lot but sometimes it isn't the magic fit. Close but it just does not quite do it. Sometimes the keys of others hit the spot, just two or three words sets you off on a profound trail of discovery and healing that wound. So search and search through what others say is helpful too.
The key is to be found in the depths of our psyche, but through self-observation, through non-identification. Not through rolling in the mud. When we identify we lose the chance to get information.
The worst illness to heal is the one where the remedy contributes to the illness. This is what happens to the binger. The desire is there and the remedy is to fulfill the desire, but once the desire is fulfilled the desire increases to want more and the vicious cycle begins. The binger is stuck in a real rut. The solution is to hold firm and burn in the smoky flames, read on a bit.
What happens then, is that the binge can't be stopped, control has been long lost, so the intelligence of the instinctive centre in the body stops it. Feeling sick, pains everywhere, unwell, exhausted etc. resetting the whole mind-body system.
The binger has to learn that rolling in the mud will never cure him/her. But stopping is the way and then waiting with real resolution for when the desire next appears. When it does in those moments of desire catch what it really is wanting, what problem that desire is trying to solve.
Stopping is control and control attracts control. In esotericism like attracts like. Light brings light. Darkness brings darkness. etc. Rolling in the mud is darkness attracting darkness.
Stopping is to be burning in the flames but that burning is sacrifice which opens the door to the new so that light can enter. That’s where we see the strength of the spirit over the flesh - the body and its desires screaming through our emotions, disturbing our stillness.
We need something to pay for the light to attract the light. The holding ourselves in the flames of the desires, is the sacrifice that pays for the light. Rolling in the mud doesn’t pay, it may attract some nasties instead to help show us how to roll better without ever getting up.
Bingeing then flagellating oneself, I don’t know may be that pays but the greater value is stopping and intensely observing, profoundly comprehending, holding firm knowing the rolling in the mud does not have the answers.
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Anyone's purity is their best protection and their best magnet.
It is one's best protection as one who is pure is one who is clear and has not done wrong things in thought, feeling and action and so have justice on his or her side. The very strong powers of justice protect the pure one if not right now definitely later perhaps when it is most needed.
The white powers, the enlightened beings are attracted to purity. Human beings who are seeking purity are also attracted to purity for the learning, for the benefits of its luminous radiations for the consciousness etc. We probably would all like to give something to someone who is pure because we know that they would not misuse it. Do the same when we invoke an angel in purity our chances are much better.
Obviously the heavy egos and the negative forces don't like purity, too boring, too stupid, like stagnation etc. It has for them a flavour they dislike that tastes bad that turns them away. When in reality those perceptions are all wrong - quite the opposite really. I think anyone who has tried to be clearer in themselves would vouch for that.
Definitely not boring there is so much to fight, certainly not stupid, because to be pure requires consciousness and lots of intelligence, will and hard work. Definitely not stagnation because it is only the beginning.
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A list right?
A list of qualities: virtues and defects, a list of titles, a list of roles, a list of points of view, a list of styles, a list of experiences, a list of sufferings, a list of dislikes and likes, a list of strengths and weaknesses, a list of skills, a list of abilities, a list of victories and defeats, and the list goes on... (pardon the pun).
That's life - things accumulating, lists forming and filling out, experience and debts accruing...
Death is list deconstructing...list erasing...
If we want to know ourselves in real values of Being we will know ourselves in the struggle to die psychologically and we will know others when they are in their fight to die psychologically.
Maybe it is only in difficult circumstances that we get to know ourselves and others. The rest is just more or less you know West Australian strawberries which look nice but taste insipid because the soil is too sandy, lacking the nutrients which give strawberries their wild and exotic flavour.
In Gnosis we know we are not a list. A list is memory. Lose our memory and our lists will go but we still are, we still exist, we are still present. However, it is so difficult to know who someone is in essence and who we are in essence.
We have to perceive... Let the essence, our intuition, our centres feel who we are or who the other person is.
When we try to know ourselves or someone we get to know lists. But what about if we don't, if we get to know ourselves or them outside of lists.
Maybe they are the vibration of them, which is a reflection of their inner quality. Difficult to feel our own vibration isn't it? Maybe they are their particular psychological nature, we can perceive our own psychological flavour, which changes often during the day.
However all these things are still not all that there is. There is the esoteric, the ontological, but that is really hard to find out, say if we do, it adds a dimension of respect in dealing with the human being, which can be good or can be inconvenient especially when we cross that line of respect into disrespect.
Or is the mystery of not knowing, a better experience than knowing? Maybe yes, maybe no or maybe a bit of mystery and a bit of knowing is best?
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