Psychology of the Centres - (4859)

We all have our particular psychology related to the centres of the human machine.

This psychology is basically about how we use the centres. That is about how we think and feel the centres should be used.

Two people can have very different ways of using their centres which come from their different ways of thinking and feeling about how the centres can be used.

For example, one person may think the emotion is to be used to be expressive, joyful and happy while another may think that the emotion is normally not to be expressed, except if while on the sports field or watching sport, because otherwise it makes one look stupid etc. 

Think differently to the way we use our centres so the more we can change.
Especially not to use the centres in a way that makes us to suffer.

This applies to all of our centres, without exception. It is illuminating and joyful to do a review of our psychology related to each of our centres.

At the end of it we always need to know our psychology and the way we think and feel the centres should be used. Once we know our particular way of using our centres we can make changes that are beneficial for us and we can also then loosen up our ideas about the centres. 

The rigid our ways the more conflict we encounter...

When we know our particular psychology we can then understand the psychology of others in relation to their centres and understand how they have come to be that way and then we naturally become more tolerant and at peace etc.

End (4859).

Define and Define - (4862)

Let's work with definition.

It is a powerful factor.

It does not matter how many egos we have. If we are defined to dissolve them there is no problem and there won't be any problems.

We define ourselves all the time, everyday. Taking definition results in action.

We define to concentrate, we define to do, we define to practice, we define to die in ourselves, we define for the path, we define for the Being, we define to accept reality...

When we define ourselves, the battles between 'yes' and 'no' stop.

Definition brings peace and focus which equals forward motion.

End (4862).

We Don't Do Because we Overthink - (4864)

We don't do because we think too much.

We stop doing because we think.

"Don't think just do." is a famous quote.

We don't practice either because we think.

"Don't think just practice." has to become a famous quote recited to ourselves everyday.

Basically in Gnostic terms we let our intellect run too much past the limit where our motor should take over.

We have to reverse that and just get into the task with the motor centre.

End (4864).

Is Giving Really Giving? - (4863)

Giving and receiving form the two poles upon which we must find balance.

To give and to receive are two things we need to learn.

We are typically unbalanced, we give too much or we receive too much. 

Giving and receiving follow a cycle. We receive and we give or we give and we receive. We receive light and we give the received light to others.

Ego infiltrates everything. We need to purify our giving and receiving. When it is an "I" that receives  or gives we are getting it wrong and that can bring effects that are not quite those that were expected.

When we give for example, we may not be really giving but taking control through giving.

When we want to receive it could be because we don't want to give it to ourselves when it is proper that we should.

End (4863).

Causal Factors are Transformers and Transmuters - (4860)

Factors that we introduce into our own causal dimension are always by nature transformative.

Transformative for better or worse.

Whatever is a cause produces effects and new effects are what transform our life.

Any causal factor changes something from negative to positive.

That is why the Intimate Christ must be seated in our causal dimension. Because from there and only from there can He transform us and author a new future inside and outside of ourselves.

Truly by working with new causes and modifying existing causes do we really change ourselves.

Transmutation is causal because it changes us and our life. So when we transmute we are also touching our causal dimension.

End (4860).

Pride is the Difference - (4858)

We may do something tedious fairly happily all by ourselves and then we may be asked to do the same thing by someone else and we get upset and protest.

In the end it is the same task but why the protesting?

Pride is the answer. 

Something in our psychology thinks that we can't be told what to do, or we are being taken advantage of or we should not be told what to do because we are an adult and we are not anyone's subordinate or mother or father or anyone else etc. etc.

We think pride is right. But really is it? Is it really right when it is the same task and it has to be done and the only difference is being told or asked?

No one is going to take advantage of us - that only happens if we allow it, so what is pride fearing or thinking is wrong?

Is it true that we are beyond being told what to do? Yet we go to work and we are told what to do so many times a day. 

Isn't it true that with pride we do not possess humility? When we are proud we do not know our place. Thinking that we can not be told what to do is not to know our place. Of course we can be told what to do we are not the supreme boss, and even the supreme boss can be told what to do because he or she can't see everything and is never perfect. In fact the best bosses are the ones who are a bit humble...

When we are proud we are also unfair. Thinking we can't be told what to do means others have to do what we could do or should do. That is unfair.

Pride is not correct! IT is can be easily debunked! Once debunked it be separated and defeated.

Isn't true that when we are proud we are wasting our time in relation to freeing and developing our essence? We are strengthening pride and the price for pride is a humiliation that hurts, and we are here in Gnosis to not bring suffering to ourselves anymore.

When we bring suffering to ourselves others suffer also.

End (4858).

Science and Art of the Other - Science and Art of Ourselves - (4852)

Relating to others is a science and an art. 

To relate really well to others in our life we need to know others and we need to know how to relate to them.

To know them is the science and the practice of how to relate is the art based on the science. 

The more we know them and the better we know how to relate to them the better overall the relating will go.

The more difficult the person is the more disciplined we must be with our science and art.

After all everything is a discipline. Every profession has its disciplinary aspect. Answering emails on time, organizing files, quoting on time, reporting, etc. etc.

It is a worth while science because to know the other we have to know ourselves. 

To not know the science and art of others is to be like a 'bull in a chine shop' or to use a 'spoon to cut a steak'.

To know the other we have to depart from ourselves, not remain stuck in our thoughts of how the other person should be but actually 'see' how the person really is.

In the process of departing from ourselves to know the other better and practice the art of relating we work and polish ourselves to a high degree.

The more difficult the others are the more we polish and discipline ourselves.

The art of relating to the other is inspired by wisdom and love. 

The art of relating is always about getting the best out of the person. It is to not hurt or annoy the person nor is it to manipulate the person to get what we want. It is to be noble, that to use this science and art with noble intentions.

If we abuse this science nd art we will pay our dues by being appropriately coerced and forced.

End (4852).

Lack of Responsibility Karma in a Gnostic Group - (4851)

What kind of karma do we get if we abandon our responsibilities whether they be human or spiritual?

A little hard to say exactly right? All that I can think of to write in this moment is that if we abandon something we are later abandoned. 

If we abandon the light, then the light one day will abandon us, or either it will be more difficult than it should be to find the light that we so need.

The teachings say that we get karma for the good that we don't do...

We get as much karma for not doing the good, as we do doing harm to others etc.

Master Samael taught this and it was also known it seems before him by Voltaire in France and I would say much before him also, as it is a universal hidden truth.

If we have a spiritual responsibility to help the great cause through maintaining and adding to a point of light in the planet (gnostic centre) and we actually have the ability to do so and we don't, then we are not doing the good that we can do. In other words we will get some some karma against our own spiritual progress. That makes sense right?

We help a Gnostic centre by sharing our work and by contributing to the generation of light and spiritual force by giving our human and spiritual presence, in other words attending, and if we attend our Being also attends.

If we have a spiritual responsibility to our Inner Being to feed the soul, and we are easily able to, but don't, it would make sense that we would receive a kind of spiritual karma. Which can be manifested in the way of the light and the spiritual forces withdrawing from us - leaving us to life which sooner or later becomes empty and confusing...

To not fulfill our responsibilities because of personal egoic reasons, is a lack of the true responsibility. True responsibility is taken no matter what 'displeased ego' within us convinces us not to. 

To assume true responsibility for a cause means that responsibility be must come from inside going outwards and as the true responsibility does, it urges us to support a cause from all angles, not just the angles that I like or are mine or are related to me. 

When responsibility comes from outside to the inside and then outwards, we have a relative responsibility, meaning we only assume responsibility for something when our egos allow us to. When our egos are upset we drop it all. This is not a responsibility that can be relied upon to build something.  

For example, no true mother drops her responsibility to feed her children because the children insult and offend her or displease her egos.etc.

End (4851).

What to Sacrifice? - (4853)

We know that we need sacrifice to move ahead and to produce octaves in quality.

Sacrifice is a tremendous engine for our work and with everything and anything in the cosmos.

So what do we sacrifice when we want to work with sacrifice to progress. 

Remember sacrifice is the conscious choice of one good superior to another.

We can sacrifice: our time and energy, our sleep, our meals, our money, our interests, our comforts, our egos, our way of thinking, our desires, our 'me-time' etc. 

End (4853).

Class Notes: Time, Personality and Trust in Ourselves - (4857)

Time

Karma is in time and in life. To escape time and life means no more recurrences and no more of so many other things. The future is already real. The three instances of time are one. We will be in the future as we are now.

Time is one unit, it is not fractioned. Our realization is already happening. We are in Gnosis because our realisation is in motion. The Inner Being knows already that it will be reached and so It has us in Gnosis. 

The reason why we pay karma now from the past, is because we are the same perosn as back then.

The fourth state of consciousness is all about unity. Especially about of time.

Personality

We need to escape from the personality. If we are not working to escape our personality we are not doing anything in the work.

The personality is the foundation of the 'myself'. The egos need the personality to manifest. It is the amalgamation of all of our "I's".

It is the basket in which the eggs (the I's) are held.

The personality is about adaptation. It is our past. It adapts who we are to the present time in which we live. The egos remain the same but the personality adapts to time and space.

Our identity is the foundation of karma. It is the foundation of our ego and personality. We have what is like an ego personality.

We need to make our identity: soul-spirit. We may start of as person-essence, then essence-consciousness and then later: essence-Being. 

A very good identity, perhaps the more accurate one is: soul-spirit. Which is the teaching that m.m.m has about spiritual symbiosis.

Why do we suffer if we are working for our liberation? That's something good to honestly ask ourselves and demand an honest answer from ourselves.

We have to look to the Being for the spiritual force and help for us to work while we do our part. 

When we have a strong personality we behave like children. A strong personality keeps us always stuck in the more. Always wanting more and always upset about not getting more.

The vehicle of the fascination with life is a strong personality. When we are deeply trapped in life we are not really mature for the esoteric path.

We don't need to cut ties with life but cut the ties of fascination within us towards life. We can do this when we make our life the spirit.

We are free from life when our aim is not life but the path. 

This is a revolution and a great step of mystical death. This is not done with the help of the mantra KRIM. It is done by changing our way of thinking and making a change in our centre of gravity.

Trust in Ourself

There are the powers of death, life and light. The powers of death come from the work of awakening and the dissolution of the ego.

The powers of life come from the affirmative psychology, that is by affirming the Being. The powers of the Being are the virtues such as patience, faith, love, hope, compassion, trust, chastity etc.

The main four powers are: love, faith, hope and trust. These powers are those of the powers of life. They come from the Holy Affirming.

When negative thoughts and feelings arise then bring the four powers. Use faith, love, trust, hope and consciousness as an antidote.

The place for the powers of life are our three brains!

We fail in using those powers due to the lack of trust in ourselves!

All the tyrants have lots of self-confidence and self-sufficiency, though channeled wrongly into life or evil but they have self-trust.

The people who have done great things for good or evil have all had great trust in themselves.

The four realties are in five centres. There is the physical, psychological, esoteric and also the ontological aspects to each of the centres. We also have human consciousness, psychological consciousness, esoteric consciousness and ontological consciousness. 

All physical pain is ontological. We have to find the lack of what virtue caused it. Once we find it we need to pay that karma or imbalance with the virtue.

Couples and the Path

We need to pay our debts with the virtues. Not with revenge and exchanging pain.

If one is slowing down the other there is a debt. We should talk to each other and say lets pay this debt with the virtue. Find what virtues are needed and go about cultivating those values.

If one is slowing down the other there is a debt. The one is who is being slowed down, slowed down the other person before. So that debt must be cancelled, though when we are both on the path it can be cancelled with exchanging values or virtues insteead of pain.

Inner Being and Consciousness

Alignment, uniformity and cohesion are very important. Alignment of the three brains. Uniform in our behaviour and enthusiasm in the work and cohesive in relating to our Inner Being.

End (4857).

Gnostic Has the Hardest Life - Harder than in a Monastery - (4854)

Monastery life from the outside seems hard, but after a while it is said, it becomes easy. An established routine, the body conditioned to the routine, one environment only to deal with and everything taken care of. 

The Gnostic working in the three factors has the hardest life, working spiritually while working physically, and dealing with the matters present in several different environments.

There is no doubt, there is substantial sacrifice in the Gnostic and in the monk. Besides the life of the Gnostic being more difficult, the life of the Gnositc allows for every part of his or her life to be touched so as to self-discover and dissolve any and all conditionings. 

Plus there are endless opportunities available for sacrifice in the life of a Gnostic, in a monastery the opportunities for sacrifice are limited by the nature of monastic life. All that a monk can do, a Gnostic can also do, however, a monk can not do all that a Gnostic in the three factors can do.

End (4854).

What Has Been Your Most Helpful Gnostic Activity? - (4855)

From one gnostic to another, what activity in a Gnostic centre has helped you the most? 

Was it a lecture, a practice, a retreat, a conversation with another Gnostic student, a book study, a certain incident in the centre, a one to one talk with the instructor...? 

This is good to know so as to be able to make the activities in a Gnostic centre more effective for the  students.

End (4855).

Havn't Carried Out A Threat then it was Ego Talking - IT can be Dissolved! - (4856)

When we make a 'had enough' claim and we don't do anything about it, then we know it was not real and an "I" was saying "I've had enough".

Then if we are still in the middle of those 'had enough" circumstances, then we know that we have not really had enough, and what it is all about, is us deciding to dissolve that "I" that says I've had enough. 

The teachings say that when we decide to dissolve and "I" and start to do it, circumstances change. But as long as we don't accept the remote possibility of working on ourselves the circumstances persist and persist.

Makes sense doesn't it? 

End (4856).

Surpass Yourself - (4850)

Gnosis calls us to surpass ourselves. Not to stay in our concepts and ideas of what is personally right or wrong.

We only really die when we surpass ourselves. That is when we transcend the personal good and evil, the wrong and right inside of ourselves.

The Being in us who is waiting there above good and evil, wrong and right contains within itself the limit and the real impersonal line of good and bad, wrong and right.

Courageous are those that can make this jump. This is the revolution that breaks all the cycles. Even those whom are good and are right at some point fall into the mechanical cycles of nature...

We can't understand our fellow Gnostics being in the bottles of personal good and bad and personal right and wrong. When we jump above we can...

That's the spirit of Gnosis - the tests and the work are summarised in the above quote.

We can't get our work back until we decide within ourselves - that we are going to surpass that difficulty, no matter how hard it is, how unfair it seems and how wrong it is to our psyche. We can't get back our true and deep work until we decide to surpass ourselves! 

End (4850).

Love as a Value - (4846)

Post Revised: 12/02/2024

I think the best start to this work of cultivating love as a value is to start by using love to work on the heavily negative egos that affect others.

To use love to work on anger. To use love to work on pride and resentment. To use love to dissolve the hurt and angry self-love and self-importance etc. To use love for our Inner Being to climb out of the hole of self-compassion.

I say respectfully if we use love this way we are on the right track.

Love is very tricky. We can not define it. as soon as we do we fall into error.

There are so many ways to love, however we only see and accept one way based on our ideas and concepts we have of love.

Because of these concepts and ideas of love we can't see love. The mind as Master Samael says kills love. 

We can use love to come out of our concepts. Use love to let go of our concepts. 

Many times, parents discover that to love their children they have to let go of their concepts and accept them as they are. After sometimes many painful years they come to understand, that staying stuck in their own concepts of what is best for the child comes at the cost of failing in love and falling out of love for their child.

Not everyone will love us. There will always be some who will hate us.
As Jonny Cash says, hopefully it is the right people that will hate us.
The "I's" hate us when we do the work.

Everyone basically sees love the way they want to be loved or the way they want to give it... 

There is really love in others whom we think have no love...

We can only see love when we expand our consciousness outside of so many bottles. 

In practice the best is to not hold onto any view point of love. Be so very open and then we will find it is easier to love.

Love is ontological, faith is causal and hope is emotional, m.m.m says.

End (4846).

Causal World Notes - (4839)

Background

This is a very important dimension for us. Our internal causal dimension is the more important.

To change our life, to change our future, to change our destiny we have to work within our own causal world, and we certainly can work with it. We all have worked with it at some point in the past. Perhaps no consistently, but at some point we have.

When we change a part of our life it is because we managed to shift or move something in our own causal world.

Nothing can unfold without a cause. That is, there are no effects without a cause.

The causal world embodies in living reality the Law of Cause and Effect.

The causal world inside and outside is a great network, where causes generate effects and effects become causes and so many things all link together by the great chain of effects becoming causes.

Our causal world is linked to the causal world of the cosmos.

Changes in our our own causal world are linked to the causal world of nature. The internal changes create corresponding changes in the causal world of nature, from effects which unfold here physically.

Through the link between the causal world of nature and our inner causal world, new causes or modifications to causes are set up in our causal world. These changes and new causes then change the course of our life...

The Karma of every person is seated in their causal world.

Karma conditions our will, that is manages causes within us.

Will is a cause and will is the power in us to make things happen.

Will is intensely emotional and when we work with intense emotion we are involving our causal dimension.

It is the dimension of will in us. It is the dimension of causes within us. In our causal world we find the causes for every thought, feeling and action as well as all the events in our life.

It is an extraordinarily powerful dimension. To live or have our centre of gravity in our own causal dimension means to be a true master of one's life and destiny. This is man number 7. Master Samael lived in the causal world and was extraordinarily happy.

Until we don't live there we are not in charge of our life, because we can not modify causes within us. Our karma and our subconscious manages the causes within us. Which is very sad. It makes us victims of misfortune as karma and the will of the egos is often to bring misfortune upon us.

Any change or modification that we yearn for must occur here in this dimension within ourselves.

If we work with causes we can order our life much better than if we work from the mind. Work with will and we will find time, we will find space, we will go ahead. If we work with the mind, we don't find time, we are slow, we don't find enough space, we fall short all the time...

There are mantras to work with the causal dimension within and outside of ourselves.

We are our strongest when we are in contact with our own causal dimension.

We learn that to take charge of our will we at some point need to clear the way of obstacles to our will.

Gnosis teaches us to go to the cause of everything. Uproot things, know things, understand things from their roots which are their causes! In other words Gnosis wants us to work in the causal!

Prayer

The causal dimension in and outside of ourselves is really powerful as it is where our Divinity begins. It is the dwelling of the soul and the Intimate Christ in us and in the world.

We with deep emotion can reach the causal world. When we have prayed with our sincerest and deepest emotion we have reached our own causal dimension. We have all done this at some point. This is a true prayer.

For prayer to be true it must reach the causal in us.

Faith is a causal power! We can't forget this...

The best help comes to us through the causal. Because we will be changed and transformations will unfold.

Causal Factors

The whole key of life is giving something a legitimate place within our causal world.

We actually have egos as causal factors within us. Meaning that those egos cause things to happen within us and outside of us. Egos that are causal factors are very powerful and are very difficult to dissolve.

Just imagine making trust, hope, faith and love as causal factors in our life. Imagine hope causing within us. Hope causing our thoughts, feelings and actions. How wonderful right?

This is something we can all work towards. It is so much better than having fear, resentment, envy etc. causing thoughts, feelings, actions and events in our life. This is suffering!

For us to do the path it must be take up a place within our causal world.

Be Careful - Negative Words from Causal Egos

The word is causal. It has a real causal power. It causes circumstances to unfold. If we speak negatively about the path or the spiritual work, it is usually because an heavy ego that is causal is speaking. As it has a place in the causal world it can actually unfold causes which are negative. 

So as we speak negatively we are actually causing negative states and circumstances whose results are to manifest our negativity. So in time there will come the point where we are physically against the path and stop working altogether and then a point of definition comes. Sometimes points of definition are painful sometimes they are not...

All definition points are causal in nature. Because after a definition point we change. We go ahead or drop back. Either way they cause a change in us...

End (4839).

Consciousness to Look IN and UP - (4849)

In the Gnostic sense the right angle for our consciousness to be looking is inwards and upwards - towards our Real Inner Being.

To be aware and fully looking into life, from the Gnostic point of view is not the right angle.

Looking inwardly and upwards towards our Inner Real Being renews us, heals us, orients us and connects us deeper to our wholeness - our spiritual side, which is more powerful, expansive and more knowing that our human side.

In other words we can benefit more in the whole sense of the word from looking inwards and upwards with our consciousness.

It's not right to forget ourselves, to have our attention with awareness looking outside all the time, its even worse to not be aware of our attention and be looking outside 100% of the time. 

Using our consciousness this way and not using causes us to fall away from our Inner Being and become weak and more solid in life which is essentially empty.

Hence we become empty...

When we are empty we are just personality talking and relating... The personality is a mask. All masks by themselves are empty.

The ego is there as well and the common result of the ego of the actions of the ego is more error and bitterness with little or no learning.

End (4849).

No NOT a Person a CONSCIOUSNESS - (4847)

Let's try to see ourselves as a consciousness.

When we see ourselves as a person we feel hurt and offended very often and there is always that sentiment of 'poor us', 'poor person', 'cute', 'ugly' etc. etc.

When we see ourselves as a person we are mostly concerned with doing things, eating, looking good, buying things etc. etc. In other words matter, which does not help us in our efforts towards developing spiritually, and it also throws into experiencing suffering.

When we see ourselves as a consciousness we can only be worried about if our consciousness is seeing correctly, acting correctly, upholding its principles, generating the right thinking, feeling and acting etc. 

This concern throws towards spiritual development and away from pain and suffering.

Let's always see ourselves as a consciousness.

End (4847).

Some Notes on the Involution Process of the Essence - (4841)

Below are some clarifying notes about what happens to the essence that is destined to involute after the death of the physical body. 

We know the teachings of Master Samael regarding involution. Specifically that each essence is given an archetypical number of 108 lives as a human being before that essence is sent into the process of involution. Where that essence will lose the human condition and will take up the condition of animal, then plant then mineral. Where it will evolve through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms to return to the state of a human being.

When the last physical existence arrives, as dictated by the Divine Law, and the physical body of the essence dies this is some of the things that take place.

The essence at this point is highly fragmented, with a very small percentage of free essence. Usually involution comes because the amount of accumulated karma is too great and the free essence is just too small to be able to attempt the realisation and very little of eternal conscious value can be learnt anymore from life.

After death the egos or fragments of conditioned essence enter the abyss of nature and begin their process of being broken down. 

If there is any essence free it then enters an animal body. Where it experiences the animal state of consciousness, then as involution advances it enters the plant kingdom and later the mineral.

The egos can also enter the bodies of certain animals as well. Animals whose nature matches with the egos that the animal receives. For example laziness, gluttony and lust would enter a pig.

As the abyss breaks down the ego the particles of essence that are free enter into animals or plants or minerals depending on the point the involuting essence is at amidst the different stages of involution. 

End (4841).

You Can't Be Dragged Along in the Path - (4845)

We can't be dragged along in the path. We have to want it for oursleves.

We can't just go along with it for our wife or husband.

We can't be in it because our husband or wife is in it.

We can't be waiting for circumstances to get better to want the path. We will alwyas be waiting if we are that way inclined.

If we are not self-driven for our path or our awakening we will not succeed and we will not help the person or people near to us to succeed. 

Because we will always never quite line to be able to fully give adn co-operate with the path and the path of others.

Half or part measures don't cut it on the path. Full measures are the only ones that do.

End (4845).

Esoteric Identity and Esoteric Life Class Notes - (4844)

Class

These notes were taken down and posted from a class that m.m.m gave this Tuesday night online.

Notes

We need an esoteric identity to elaborate an esoteric life.

It can't be any other way. To have an intiamte esoteric life we need to have and foster an esoteric identity.

The identity is what we forget, and when we forget our identity we lose our esoteric life. 

When we fell we forgot our identity. 

Even in life when we forget that we are a parent, a teacher, a doctor, a priest, a lawyer, a mayor etc. we fall and we do things that are not at all becoming of a parent, a teacher, a doctor, a priest etc. 

To have an esoteric life we need esoteric goals and a line of achievements and goals. We need to be achieving something. We need to be in a line of development.

Our identity as a soul is one thing and our identity on the path is something else. 

When we have an esoteric identity we are identified internally by the masters of the internal worlds.

By virtue of our identity "I am". We are what we are. We are what our identity is.

Our internal face is very different to our physical face. Our internal face takes shape based on the quality of our inner psychic life. We could all be very ugly internally meanwhile our psychic life is so ugly.

To have an esoteric life we just need to dedicate ourselves to the path.

To be an esotericist in the five centres is what produces an esoteric inner life.

We live the esoteric teachings inside of ourselves. It is not just experinces it is to live new and more esoteric states of consciousness.

We can say that to live an esoteric life is to live in a series of states of consciousness produced by our esoteric work.

Karma gives us the strength to pass through very difficult circumstances, which are our karma. The difficult circumstances are our karma.

The instinctive memory of the path brings us back to the path and at the same time it fills our subconscious full of fear, and to avoid feeling that fear we throw ourselves deeply into life. 

Our subconscious knows that the path will make us to pay all of our debts. We know deep down that will be painfiul.

Esotericism gives us the chance to consciously reclaim our place.

By only having an esoteric identity we can develop an esoteric inner life.

We can develop our identity as a soul, which is to develop a life dedicated to relating in a dignifying and edifying way for and with our Inner Being.

To acheive an esoteric identity we need the spiritual symbiosis.

The most important point is to never forget our identity.

The key about our identity is to know all about what it implies. That is the most important thing.

The path is for sound and balanced minds and personalities.

As soon as we have the esoteric identity we have the consciousness.

Using or exercising the right identity will help us to raise our level of being and it will also help us to give the correct answer to the events of life as well as to awaken. 

We need to use the powers of: consciousness, trust, love, hope and faith to speak and this will transform our life.

We need to figure out which value we need to use to help us express more our consciousness. It could be faith, it could be love. it could be trust...

We can never use what we don't remember.

We can't give what we don't have.

The best moment to practice self-remembering and the spiritual symbiosis is in the morning and at night.

The key is the flavour. The flavour allows us to distinguish the flavour of 'life' and the flavour of the path. If we can not tell the difference between the two we will end up failing.

When we have or Inner Being at the centre we don't need to chose anymore.

The question of what to be and what not to be is a matter of using reference points to guide us.

If we experience the same recurrence over and over again. We have not raised our level of Being.

If we are locked in a drama, to be able to leave it we need to improve our state of consciousness in receiving and giving. In the way of receiving the event better and giving a better or more correct answer to the event.

When change our state of consciousness we change the correlation of forces within ourselves.

What is it to be awakened? What is it to be the awakened consciousness?

Who are we? We are either one of five things: personality, sleeping consciousness, essence, consciousness or mind. We are either at any given moment one of these five things.

Who is speaking? Is it the mind, the personality, the ego, the consciousness?

We need to chose the right behaviour. Which all comes from the awakened consciousness.

When we explain the teachings so much we end up ruining the teaching and losing the conscious nature of the teaching and the state of consciousness that apprehended it.

The fact that many initiaites fell was because they had not yet left the realm of the mind.

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When it Comes to the Law, Assumptions Don't Work Out - (4843)

That's what everyone does in relation to the Law held in place by the government, and enforced by the police and other government departments, is to make assumptions where it is alright or will be alright.

The usual thing that happens when we make an assumption like this, is that we end up breaking the law and are lumped with a fine.

When it comes to making assumptions about the Law, it is highly likely that our assumptions will not work out.

We have to know the Law, both physical and Divine.

We are still charged by the Law even if we didn't know what we did was an infringement of the Law.

We don't know the Law and so we assume. Until we know the Law we shouldn't assume.

This happens to us because we are good inside and so many things of human law are not in the cosmic moral law. Also so many things that are wrong by the moral cosmic law are not wrong by the Earthly country human laws.

Knowing remedies assuming.

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Comfortable in Your Own Skin While In a Hurry - (4842)

Our days for a while can be become very hurried with lots to do. Difficult times right.

What we can't allow ourselves to do is to get swept up in the hurry and lose ourselves.

Everything we do has to become a practice of meditation - that is relax, concentrate and remember one's Being and occupy fully our presence in our body and move comfortably in our own skin.

We have to do the opposite of the ego. There are egos that like to rush and lose ourselves in it all and run around like chickens with no head.

If we slow down and do a moving meditation on what we are doing and living through we get things right in quicker time and are more efficient and things work out. 

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How to See and Understand Infra and Supra Dimensions - (4840)

General

This is just an example that may give some help in seeing and understanding the three levels of the world. 

The three levels are inferior, middle or physical and superior. in other words lower, middle and upper.

We live in the middle or physical world which is visible and tangible to us. We also live in constant contact with the invisible worlds which are the inferior and superior dimensions.

We don't see the invisible dimensions but we can and they are there to see and from them emanate the occult influences that govern so much of what happens in this world.

The fight between the upper and the lower always happens and is most intense in the middle. Which in the outside world is planet Earth and humanity, and in the inside world it is us and within us.

Example

Take a $100 bill. If we look at it physically we see only a piece of paper. That in nature without any other human being around it is as good as a fallen leaf from a  tree.

Say we are about to throw the $100 bill into the fire. Then we start to see. Depending, we can see the only the superior or only the inferior or both.

As that $100 bill is getting close to the flames we see a person having worked for that, sitting down straining their eyes and back for a few hours at an office desk or sweating it out for a couple of hours inside a roof laying out cables (gratitude), we see the result of a service being delivered (cause and effect), we see honest hard work, we see good will, we see a happy face in someone receiving it, we see a smile on the person who earnt it, we see the love of the cosmos giving and its laws in motion, we see a mother using it to feed her children etc. etc.   

The above is to see the superior which is always more expansive and global and it is to see the virtues of the soul involved in everything. 

As that $100 bill approaches the flames we see a really good dinner for two at a restaurant (gluttony) about to go up in smoke. We see chocolates and ice cream melting away, we see cigarettes being burnt, we see movie tickets about to go up in smoke, we see a new gadget exploding, we see a bottle of whiskey burning a bright blue flame etc. etc.

The above is to see the inferior which is how any "I" in our psychology sees the $100 bill. The inferior dimension of things contains the vision of the "I's".

The awakened one can see both sides however choses to place him or herself in the superior.

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Not for Complete Works Now? - (4826)

How do we see the self-realization now days? With the times of tranquility running shorter and with the increasing difficulty of life amidst looming global conflict.

Some may see it as the time for complete works as having gone. By complete works, it is meant  completing the three mountains.

If that be true, then the best we can do is to stay as we are working in three factors, two factors or one factor - focusing on the awakening of the consciousness and the death of the pluralised "I".

It has been said that an awakened or awakening essence can not be sent into involution. 

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Mental Violence Notes - (4838)

Mental violence is a serious thing. It seems like nothing but the more we become aware of it and the more we experience it from pothers we see that it is a serious thing.

We may not be violent physically but we can be violent in word and thought.

To be violent in thought is not only about imagining violent fight scenes with guns and swords all the time. It has a lot to do with our interactions with the thoughts and thinking of others. 

Very true quote, we get violent when we don't know how or lack the capacity to cope with a situation and its impressions.

There is physical, verbal and mental violence.

Even teachers can be mentally violent towards their students...

Mental violence with others is when we attack, or cut off the thoughts and ideas of others. 

When we don't listen and we don't understand their points, when we don't explain when we don't give others the right to express their thoughts and ideas then we are mentally violent.

Being mentally violent doesn't give us mental peace. It makes meditation very difficult, much more difficult than it is and it shows that there is a rigidity in our mind.

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Thankful for Difficulty to Awaken - (4837)

The ideal to awaken would be to have someone watching us and reminding us all the time - practically every moment not to get identified and stop dreaming.

Well that can happen but not directly. 

It can be that the circumstances of one's life are such that, as soon as one stops paying attention or gets identified difficulties arises followed later by some pain and suffering.

That is a help in our life and its obviously best to co-operate and not get identified, stop dreaming and take awareness of our attention.

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Your Life's Circumstances are the Solution to the Equation of the Being's Realization - (4836)

We, I included, tend to fight and protest about our circumstances...

We, I included, tend not to accept fully our circumstances. 

'Shoulding all over ourselves' about how things 'should' be better...

Thinking esoterically m.m.m says, the circumstances that we have are the best ones for us and our Inner Being to realise ourselves.

Our circumstances are the best combination of favourable cosmic and human factors as well karmic considerations which actually are the unique solution to the complicated equation of our spiritual realization.

The bottom line is to deeply accept our circumstances for us to give the correct answer to them, which is the correct value that we can only give by working hard on ourselves

End (4836).

Some Prayer Notes - (4835)

Here are some notes about prayer.

Notes ⧊

⧊ Master Samael says that nature obeys the stronger force. When we pray and we don't unify ourselves we are not the stronger force.

⧊ Master Samael taught that what happens when we pray not being in the third state of consciousness, is that we ask for something that we have not consulted all the other egos for. As they have not been consulted and are are not interested in what we are asking for they rebel and ask for the opposite of what we are asking for. Their rebellion becomes the stronger that nature responds to.

⧊ The above reason is why many times we get the opposite of what we are asking for. Therefore it is very important to know how to pray.

⧊ The way to pray Master Samael taught is to first become aware of ourselves, entering the third state of consciousness and align the three brains with the prayer using the following formula.

* Third state of consciousness is a state of self-observation and self-awareness (self-remembering).

⧊ The formula is to use our intellectual centre to formulate the prayer. To use the emotional centre to feel the prayer. Then the motor centre to pray and work to fulfill the prayer.

⧊ The role of the emotional centre is very important. We often don't feel the prayer. When we don't feel the prayer it lacks a lot of strength. To feel the prayer is to integrate with it, to bring it within ourselves and that way the prayer can touch our causal world and modify causes making the prayer to be fulfilled.

⧊ To do the prayer is also to kneel down but also to do things later that complement and help facilitate the prayer coming true. For example, if we pray for patience we should be patient and work on frustration, anger desire etc.

⧊ To pray this way causes the prayer to actually leave our own small atmosphere and reach the superior worlds and higher parts of our Inner Being.

⧊ Prayer in the third state of consciousness is a real power. It really works and it really can help us. 

⧊ To pray like this, is also I think the best advice that we can give to people when we don't know how to help them and they are also unsure about how to help themselves. Praying like this will get the help that they need from their Inner Being and the masters who know best how to help them.

⧊ To pray like this  for others is also one of the best ways to help them.

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Ambience After Talk - (4834)

After each Gnostic lecture an ambience is created among the presenter and the audience and this ambience or aura remains for sometime in the room. 

This ambience helps the audience to understand the knowledge that is being presented. As soon as that ambience is disturbed it is a little harder to connect to the points. 

It is a lot like dreams. Where the suggestion is to not move when we wake up because moving dissipates our connection to the dreams which makes the dream more difficult to remember.

This ambience can be disturbed in many ways. Hackling, challenging, contradicting or arguing with what has been said dissipates very quickly this ambience. With this ambience dissipated, the audience then loses some connection to the points presented in the talk. Consequently the points that were presented do not remain as vividly as they could in the audience.

This is an interesting pint to be aware of especially when we ask questions and make comments during and after the talks.

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Retreat is to Interchange Values - (4833)

Retreats are really about interchanging values. We receive and give through the many events in a retreat. 

We all bring our values to the retreat and those values visibly and invisibly form a net of connections through which each participant interchanges values. 

When we speak and act we visibly interchange values and when we meditate, pray and listen we invisibly interchange values.

Ideally the retreat aims at giving spiritual values which the attendees receive and the attendees reciprocate  by feeding back their understanding and later on in time or perhaps immediately the application of these values.

This goal of this post is to bring to light a truth that by being aware of it we can enhance the experience of the retreat for ourselves and others.

To be fully conscious and to be able to give and receive our maximum from any retreat, the interchanging both visibly and invisibly is required. 

We can interchange consciously and get and give the most, and being conscious we will transact with spiritual values rather than with other values such as those of the personality which are neither here nor there and can be found anywhere else in life, of which we don't need to go to a retreat to receive.

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Stay Still and Accumulate - Move and Let Go Forward - (4832)

When we stay the same we end up accumulating...

When we make changes and shifts of perception within ourselves we let go...

The key to shed layers of conditioning is to make inner shifts and changes. 

It is just like moving house. The longer we stay in a house the more we accumulate. When we move house we realize that the many things we have accumulated need to be, and also can be let go of, and passed on. 

It's just the same within us. The more we change, the more within us we will naturally let go of.

If there's something that we want to let go of but can't. All we have to do is change inwardly (die psychologically) and we will naturally be able to let go of it.

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