Gnostic Wisdom

When we hide something or lie about something, the hidden value that is causing us to lie or hide something lands back on us. For example, we lie to cover up something that we agreed to do but we didn't do for some reason. Later when that lie comes out into the open, the value that made us lie, which in this case could have been laziness, neglect and pride will come back onto us, going against us. We will have to not ignore it, we will have to fix it after all and we will lose trust and face in front of others.     This is always the way, when we don't relate to the light and the truth. These are the kind of payments as a rule that we face as backlash when playing with the truth.  End (5607).

To transform darkness into light, above all we need a love for and deep acceptance of the light. There is no other power within us than a love for the light that will help us get through the embarrassment and disappointment of seeing our obscurity. If we love and accept the light we have a good chance of being able to see the vested interests of the ego to keep the obscurity strong. What really helps to build a conscious trust and love for the light, is to really see all the drawbacks of the darkness. Then contrasting them with the immense benefits of the light. End (5606).

There is such a strange thing in life where it goes that we can spend years working hard to develop something and in a few minutes or even seconds it can be all gone. This applies to material things and esoteric intangible things.  This is one of the qualities of Samsara. We can spend our life building and paying for our dream home yet it can be all gone overnight, we can spend years building our customer base and reputation and it too can all go with just one one bad customer experience, we can spend our life developing our path and with a fall it can be lost in seconds, we can be friends for years and just one bad conversation ends it, years in the gym and in a few months it's all gone... All the pleasures of the egos are also like that they are only very short term and we are left with costly consequences that tak emuch much longer to repair and reinstate. This applies not only to the "I's" of lust but to all the egos. With anger we take pleasure in getting angry a...

Revolution = To Transmute To produce a revolution is to transmute. So a Christmas revolution would be to transmute the 'normal' way of doing Christmas into something more conscious and beneficial to the soul (ours and others). Typical Christmas Experience A typical Christmas experience goes like this: ■ People have everything what do I get them? I don't know, have to think. We think and ideas start to appear. ■ Some ideas appear then we rush to buy them. ■ While buying gifts we get the feeling that we are not sure if they will be needed or used, but we have to buy something to make sure we have a gift to give. ■ We get impatient because our time is limited and that makes us aggressive while driving, while parking and while in store shopping, and especially in queues at the checkout. ■ An overwhelming amount of washing, cleaning and cooking in preparation for the one or two Christmas gatherings. ■ People go to church for an hour or two and prepare decorations and food for te...

We lie to ourselves and others because of having subconsciousness. Within everyone's subconscious there is a part that is light and a part that is dark. We lie when we use our intellect to make the dark part of the subconscious acceptable.  For example, we steal something and when we are caught we are asked why. So as to not get into more trouble we use our mind to quickly think of a reason that is not true but is acceptable, and hides the real reason why we did it, which is not acceptable. We lie to ourselves when we notice that we act out of the dark part of the subconscious and we start to believe the excuses and reasons that we invent. The interesting thing is that the "I" is naturally a lier to ourselves. It's existence is based on reasons, justifications and excuses made by the intellect. These excuses and reasons are always present in our intellect, they come forth naturally. Difficult to stop, but our work here is to not believe them. Then we won't ever li...

That is where it's all at: practicing when we don't feel like it. If we develop ourselves through doing our practices when we don't feel like it, we will gain so much. We will actually gain consistency, and results come from consistency. Frankly, we can't wait for when we feel good and feel like practicing to actually practice. Because we often don't feel good and when it is that we feel good, we don't feel like practicing, and so we will only ever practice a few times in a month or even a few times in a year.    We're really going nowhere practicing like that... End (5603).

The best key to develop clairvoyance Master Samael says is serenity. Why? Because serenity allows us to remain relaxed and to give our mind time before it reacts, and clouds our ability to see, imagine and reason. Serenity allows us to not judge or classify anything with the mind so that we are open minded to see the solution or what comes next. Anger and reacting blind us. Serenity is non-reaction and it is in many ways the opposite of anger and fear. End (5602).

Say we are driving faster than usual in a legitimate hurry, and we need to look far ahead to be aware of any potential hazards, we actually use our imagination to do this and we may not be aware of it.  It is actually our imagination that opens up this other dimension of potential hazard. Our imagination opens this new dimension up, that makes us open to 'see' a potential hazard coming. If we do not use our imagination we won't see any hazards on the road until they are right in front us. The same thing with a security guard or a body guard or a sentry. It is really their imagination that allows them to be effective.  It is not to project anything, but to have that dimension of threat or hazard open to us that then allows us to hear, see or perceive the threat or hazard before it is too obviously right in front of ourselves and our physical senses. Now, clairvoyance is the development of this openness to other dimensions.  When we are in a state of alertness waiting to ca...

To begin the day, in a driven and motivated way for our inner work, we need an emotion that is profound and meaningful to us. Not an idea, or a motivating thought, but an emotion. A profound emotion at that. Something like: "today I am going to work to free my soul!" or "Today I am going to work to really change for the benefit of all, mostly for myself that is my Inner Being.". End (5600).

Introduction I would say human beings in a state of sleeping consciousness live their lives out of a combination of the three below types of consciousness. Conscious It is clear awareness, understanding and knowledge. It is objective and can be understood by all. There is control, logic, organization and order. All is above board, honest and transparent. Here the truth reigns and it is clearly seen. Subconscious It is a mixture of the known and unknown. There is a definite duality present. There exists a division, there is one part that is in the light and there is another part that is in the dark. There is a mixture of two elements. There is a part that is aware and knows, and there is a part that is not aware and does not know. There is a honest part and a dishonest part.  The part that is in the light is aware of the correct and honest thing to do, and there is some knowledge of the psychological processes involved, however that awareness and knowledge is limited. The rest of th...

Just going with what you visualise, however the image of what you are trying to visualise in your mind's eye appears, helps us very much to further develop that ability to visualise.  Whether that image be blurry, half an image, not quite the right colour or shape just continue with it. It will improve in quality, as you continue practicing, trust that. Giving ourselves that trust, that it will improve, allows us to progress. End (5599).

Here are a few different ways to look at our karmic debts and karma in general. End (5598).

It is powerful! It is helpful to enter more into our own Being, as the fabric of our own Being is joy.  The natural feeling of the essence is the joy to be alive. It is the power and the key to concentrate. We can concentrate so much more naturally if we find joy in what we are focussing on. It is the key to overcome tiredness. Because we all have natural access to the massive reserves of energy put aside for joy and what makes us feel joyful. It is the key to transform the boring and tedious into a smile and something meaningful. It has the power to lift people up out of negative internal states. It has the power to heal others and ourselves from many maladies that are psychological, and others that are psychosomatic, as well as even some physical ones. The power to see the real, the objective and other perspectives of events and people. Reality is never all negative.  The power to dispel the negative inside and out. There is joy in our Intimate Christ... "Life Is Beautiful"...

Secret A practical secret to life is to be able to find a way to make everything joyful and fun. If we can do this, which we all can, we can make our life much happier. Very true right? As with all the virtues or values, they come to full bloom amidst their opposite. Their power always resides in being able to transform something mechanical and negative into something conscious and positive. When we are tired, bored, fed up, miserable, sad and lazy, that is precisely when we need the value of joy. When we bring joy, we give ourselves the power make what we are doing right now, fun and joyful. Just imagine our boss doing that. It would be great, it would be so infectious making everyone happy. But that, alas is too childish for him or her to do. It is pride that stops us from making something boring or tiring or humiliating fun or joyful... Many people are miserable and unhappy only because they have never consciously engaged their power of joy. Why do we love dogs so much? Because they...

Tension is tightens our body and emotions. When we are apprehensive or having to face something we believe will be unpleasant we tighten up. We tighten up to brace ourselves for the pain to come. When we trust in the moment and in our Being that brings us each moment of our life, we have a reason to trust and relax. We can trust whatever the moment brings, because our Inner Being is behind it. If it be pleasant, if it be unpleasant, if it be 'not as bad as we thought', if it 'be better than we expected', our Inner Being is behind it.  If we analyse each moment, we can come to the conclusion that every moment that we live in life, could have been worse...  If we think that about a unpleasant moment that is coming to us, we can trust and relax in what the moment will bring... End (5394).

Here is some knowledge from a mini revelation of the consciousness. We all have contracts or debts with others that are present not at a human level but at an internal level. Such as an essence to essence level or a Mondad to Monad level.  Where these contracts or debts come from we may not know. From the past I'd say, when a certain pact or agreement was made between souls or Monads. Anyhow, we come to life with those contracts, and in time we meet those whom we have these contracts with physically. As we are asleep we don't become fully of aware of the contract we have internally to help that person. We know something deep down that we must help them, yet we don't. We may totally avoid or ignore them, or help just a bit here and there, nothing special or substantial. As mentioned before, we are asleep and what happens, is that in time, we develop a strange kind of obsession or a fascination with person that is critical and negative. Where we want to know what they are doi...

There is a part of patience which can be called conscious endurance.  Which means to endure some difficult reactions within ourselves for a greater good. A good greater than the ourselves, especially those vested or egoic interests.  The type of conscious endurance that is needed that falls under patience, is the type where we observe the difficult reaction unfold within ourselves. and endure the difficult feelings and wait that they pass. We do this knowingly so to die and for the greater good.  Here patience, is to endure the difficulty that arises within. The more we consciously endure the more we comprehend and the weaker the difficulty becomes. In order to die within ourselves we all need this power at some point for some stage. But never for always... End (5390).

It seems the sacrifice that moves mountains in our spiritual work is really sacrifices sustained over the long term. As that is what is more difficult.  Many can sacrifice something for a night, but to sustain that, higher energy, will and values such as love are needed. End (5389).

The answer is because everything has knowledge. Consciousness is knowledge and being. For anything to be what it is, it needs knowledge. That is knowledge of how to be what it is. Even rocks have consciousness, because they know how to atomically be a rock. This knowledge is precisely consciousness. If there is no knowledge there is no thing. If there is knowledge there also has to be a 'knower'. This 'knower' comes from being which comes from the consciousness. The conclusion here is, that the more we expand our consciousness the more we can 'be'. End (5388).

To make recurrences happen a very complicated and intricate equation must be solved. One day I experienced a one minute long recurrence with a gentlemen that I sold a watch to. He did not recognise me, but I recognised the watch as well as the gentlemen. He was waiting to cross a busy city terrace and for some reason his watch caught my eye. I slowly  recognised the watch as the one I use to have and then I recognised the gentlemen. I thought my goodness to make this one minute happen (how long it took the lights to change) how many things had to happen in my day, how many small decisions and events were made to unknowingly to make this happen. Maybe it would have happened in another way but it still was destined to happen. That equation of recurrence had to be solved somehow.  I imagine such equations exist in life, our karma creates the variable in the equation as well as the structure of the equation and our decisions in time and space are the inputs into the variables and ...

One may suspect that individuals can have a kind of karma that has to do with one sex in particular. For example, can there be a woman that in whatever interaction she has with any male in or not in her life not turn out well, become complicated and difficult, and turn conflictive? Is something like that possible? Obviously it would not be all that common.  We can certainly have karma related to a person or a family or a group of individuals, even a country but to a sex? Anyhow, I think that it can happen, especially if a person develops a deep inward negative attitude to a particular sex. I even believe we can have karmic debts related to a certain animal species.  It makes sense to me that if a person during their life went on a mission hunting down a certain species for reasons way outside of any real need (if there ever be such a thing), such as for revenge, pleasure, entertainment, that they would incur a karmic debt against that animal. Perhaps even die by, or because of...

This diagram shows how behind each facet of an ego there is a certain value that is lacking. That same value is the precious antidote. This diagram also says that the lack of a value manifests in a way to compensate externally for the lacking value. This diagram also says that there is a solution to that lacking of a value. I don't really agree with the resolutions listed, because the real resolution is the filling of the value lacking by giving that value (to oneself and others) and dissolving the "I" that conditions this value in the wrong direction. End (5385).

Many times in our Gnostic studies we stop making positive changes in ourselves. The main point of the teachings is for us to change. Here are some ideas - even though superficial but still good that can help us to get our focus back onto changing ourselves and our nature. End (5384).

Here are some ideas or concepts that may be useful to people who are working on themselves to be able to say 'no' to certain circumstances that are not benefiting them. A 'no' to certain circumstances is a 'yes' at the same time to better circumstances. End (4638).