The Four Memories - (4045)

Introduction

We have to know how best to relate to memory, which means to know when we have to liberate ourselves from it and when we have to use it to our advantage.

To liberate ourselves from 'something', we have to know that 'something' really well. 

Just like the prisoner who wants to escape his or her prison, the more intricately they know about the prison and the way its managed, the more possible it will be to escape. 

The work with memory is to not erase memory, it is to work on the effects of memory within ourselves. 

Memory is such a tremendous part of the way we work. Try to imagine how we would function without memory...

All of our thinking is based on memory. As are our concepts and perceptions.

The Cosmos, the Gods and nature have memory. As master Samael says when the great Cosmic Night comes, creation withdraws in the AIN SOPH AUR, and what remains of creation, is only memory, that which the Divine Beings remember. 

Memory in the best way allows continuity, it gives us the knowledge of the trajectory of events through time. 

Four Memories

We have four memories teaches m.m.m. He is right, I agree with him we really do have four memories. 

Work Memory

There is the work memory which we all create as well. This work memory is not a memory we are born with. It is not an endowment, it is something that is consciously worked upon. 

The work memory is the result of our consciousness working upon the impressions we have received and the egos related to those impressions.

Perhaps we could loosely say work memory is a fifth memory.

This post gives an explanation of each of the four types of memory.

Senses

This is the memory of the sensations received through our senses. Each of the five senses has a section in our sense memory. We have visual memory, auditory memory, olfactory memory, tactile memory and taste memory.

Quite often the memory of some of our senses links in with the memory of the centres, especially that of the instinctive and emotional centres.  

For example, olfactory memory (smell) connects powerfully to the emotional centre.

Centres

This memory holds the rememberings of what occurred in our centres. That is, what we thought, what we felt, what we did, what we said, what impulses and sensations we felt (instinctive centre) and the sensations of our sexual centre.

Impressions

This memory holds all the rememberings of the results in our psyche of the impressions we received at a given time. In many ways, it is a psychological type of memory. It is a memory of the impressions left in our psychology which often overlaps with the the memory of the centres. It is a memory of the psychological flavours left within us after a conversation, an event, an action, a gesture, a word, an impression of some kind, etc. 

Impression memory is essentially what we live with and through. It is the memory that our egos access and combine with their logic to produce their thinking. Which is often negative.

So often, it is really this memory that being subjective gets us into trouble. It is not a factual memory.

We through experience come to learn that we can not rely on impression memory as it is not accurate. Our impression of what was said is so often not what was said.

Often the strongest memory within us is the impression memory, where we remember only the impression or psychological flavour that carries a certain meaning that we remember about an event or conversation for example. 

The impression memory is not at all the same as the factual memory, to remember what was actually said in facts and compared to the end impression of the conversation, yields a lot of discrepancy. 

The impression memory mixes easily with other memories from the senses, impressions, centres and through the different functionalisms and actions of the mind creates a certain conglomerate that becomes a story.

These functionalisms are: duality, associations and relativity. These actions are: concepts, conjectures, speculations, and plans.

Impression memory is all about parcels of impressions that combine with thinking to produce in us a fractioned memory. This fractioned memory serves the vested interests of the ego within us. This leads us to develop a selective memory and lose sight of the whole picture. The big picture always holds much more of the truth.

The work on memory is really about clarifying and dissolving the errors in the impression memory.

Esoteric

This is a very important section of our memory. There is actually a lot of knowledge held in this part of our memory. This is the memory of having done stages of the esoteric path before, memory of having practiced Alchemy before, memory of life and the path in previous races, memory of esoteric methods and knowledge, memory of officiating in the temples, memory of the dawn of creation, memory of the absolute, memory of past lives, memory of being between lives, memory of rituals and ceremonies and memory of the Being, Divine Mother, 

Conclusion - Practical Work

All work begins with discovery. We can observe and see how much of our thinking is based on memory. Furthermore see how much any ego's processes all use memory (senses, centres and impressions).

Once we see that in any given thought there is memory, then the work begins. The work is about clarifying the truth of that memory based story. To only way to clarify things before our consciousness is to ask questions. Ask serious questions designed to establish the whole truth. 

To do this we must be on the side of truth and the work and step away from our pain, our suffering, our story and vested interests.

Basically it mens to release the death-grip that ego has on fulfilling its vested interests.

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