The two values of honesty and integrity help a person to maintain a good relationship to their sexual energy.
When these two values especially in relation to sexuality suffer, a person's sexuality suffers.
These two values also help a person to solve problems or issues related to sexuality, as well as regenerate and refine it.
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We can be attached to the money we have. The perception of money we have is relative. To some it is something, to others it is nothing.
Besides that, because we don't want to put it, or some of it, at the service of the work, when there is a real opportunity to do so, we end up getting stuck.
Not using that or some of that money wisely at the service of the work and the great cause, ties us further to life and matter. To keep that money intact and do something for the work while keeping that money intact we have to work more and more and the more stuck we get.
When we release our grip on it, things shift forward for us. What are we here to do? To guard a set of figures on a screen or to live and to go forward in developing our Inner Being?
Trust is important. If we give to the Being, the Inner Being will give back to us. As we have cared for the Being the Being will look after and care for us.
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If one day we decide to avoid no one during our day, we will find out how much avoid people.
We avoid people many times during a given day. We only really know how much when we try to not avoid anyone.
Most of the avoidances are due to not having time or wanting to give time. When we are running late we tend to avoid others.
The observation of avoiding people because we are running late tells us a lot. We avoid due to not accepting that we are late and not taking responsibility for our predicament.
We may lack the ability to communicate in a nice way that we can't talk right now.
When we have done something wrong we avoid people, because we have fear that they will address that. In this case the avoidance is due to a lack of acceptance and responsibility.
To avoid is to not present our face. Which has a lot to do with not being responsible for what we have done. We don't take the step of being responsible because we don't yet want to correct or repair the harm we are responsible for.
There is a lot of subconscious to discover when we decide not to avoid people.
We may not have done anything wrong and we may not be late yet we avoid people. Why? Because there is something that we don't like about them and want to face. Because they have a knack or are the same as us and facing them means to face something uncomfortable about ourselves.
In general, avoiding people is about avoiding something we find uncomfortable.
End (5668).
To overcome anger in the moment it is arising we have to do something different. Something different inside and outside.
That something different is not to answer with force like the other person is if they are, or it is to look for why we, or the other person are angry.
The issue causing anger is not the anger. It is something different that we can work with and remedy.
End (5664).
Home invitations are really good. They give the invitees the opportunity to dissolve and let go of concepts they have those they are visiting.
Concepts changed and let go of is a really good experience. It brings light and a degree of superior emotion. Certainly not a waste to time...
To create new concepts and negative ones at that, is not a useful thing to do for our consciousness.
There are people who invite to their home and there are people who don't.
The 'plus' of those that don't, is that good concepts (which are maybe false) stay, while the 'minus' is that people don't really get to know them and they give themselves a chance to give from within their at home daily reality.
The 'plus' of those that do, is that people get the chance to let go of wrong concepts, and the 'minus' is that perhaps people can get disappointed. This though seldom happens. The 'minus' side here is slight compared to those who don't invite people to their home.
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After a while of working on any ego the need for a discipline specific to that ego emerges.
Some discipline examples are: envy - no comparing, lust - cut impressions and no fantasy, anger - few or no words and move on, fear - live the moment and no projections etc.
It is a discipline that arises out of our efforts of comprehension and yearning to dissolve that ego.
It is something that we create and it makes us to remember what others have said about dissolving that same ego.
Without that discipline we know that we can not progress.
When we start to work with this discipline we are in the way of dissolving that ego.
Holding to that discipline weakens the ego and brings forward the light and strengthens the will to choose the light.
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It seems like the expectation people have to do with spiritual development is that it progresses in a smooth straight line.
The reality it seems is much more like a very zig-zagged up and down spiral that in time slopes upwards producing development.
The teachings don't really explain this...
It is only really our own example and the examples of others doing the work that we suspect, and later learn, that this is way things go.
It seems that what is important in the path is the overall picture. We all have so much to pay and transform making progress very complicated.
End (5660).
Not sure if uncertainty has that function to make us to look inwardly for what is always there and always will be. It sure does do that though.
After looking for certainty in all the different places outside of ourselves and not finding it we have only one other place to look - inside.
There inside of ourselves we can take refuge in that certainty within ourselves. The certainty that our inner Being is there and will always be there and is helping from instant to instant.
End (5661).
Master Samael says that the soul is fabricated from a movement from the centre towards the boundary returning to the centre.
For example, we start the work from inside, feeling we need to change. Then we find a school in the outside world and apply the teaching. As we apply the teaching it becomes ours - that is a tool of our consciousness.
We do that with meditation, self-inquiry, self-remembering etc.
When we make any teaching conscious we make soul bit by bit.
End (5659).
When we trust we can let go of things. It is hard to let go of things when we lack trust. They go hand in hand, trust and letting go.
The are four classical ways we can let go of things:
1.) Letting go of physical possessions not needed anymore
2.) Letting go of negativity by cultivating contentment and happiness in the present
3.) Letting go of expectations by giving without expecting returns
4.) Letting go of concepts, memory and data (information)
Letting go of control is also interesting. The below guide shows what is easy to let go of because we can not control it.
End (5658).
Upon reflection, lists really seem to be a real thing.
In human life there are: waiting lists, parts list, check lists, shopping list, 'to do' list, 'bucket' list, stock list, delivery list, guest list, passenger list, standby list, punch list, hit list, wish list and so on and so on...
In the esoteric field there are: list of tests, list of the stages of the parts, list of the parts of the Being, list of laws, list of rays, list of urgencies, list of priorities, list of debts, list of egos etc.
They seem to be something more than an invention of the human mind.
Lists seem to be the human being's mental expression of the cosmic principle of order.
If a system of some kind has several parts and an order to the way those parts come together and function, a human being will create a list when he or she studies that system.
The function of any list is to give the complete story and detail the order of things.
Using a list we can complete and order anything.
It is a tool of order. A tool of 'to do'.
Therefore we can use lists to order our psychological work, as well as our psyche.
End (5656).
Even though anger looks strong and courageous, it is really a coward. Anger is the psychology of using force to escape our lack of inner strengths to solve difficult situations.
The psychology of using anger has within it the false image of being strong and courageous. Upon a deeper look there is inner cowardice.
When there is a difficult situation we need force to go inside and accept the situation within us. We need force to look inside ourselves to accept our fault if one is being pointed out. We need force to be patient or hold back our instinctive impulses. We need force to engage our consciousness to find a solution. All of this requires force. It is correct that our consciousness sends us force in such situations because we need it. We just need the right psychology to handle that force being sent.
When we use force against someone we are a coward because we escape going through the uncomfortable feelings of holding back our impulses, the uncomfortable feelings of being patient and the uncomfortable feelings of accepting our errors.
Because we lack inner strength to handle our comfortable feelings we resort to anger. This is the very definition of cowardice, which is to escape what is in front of us.
The conclusion is, we need to develop inner strengths to help dissolve anger.
End (5655).
There is much more to these two egos than money and food.
We know that in every ego there are ineffable values of the Divine Being within it. We know further to that, that each value is a way in itself to the our Inner Being.
For example: the way of love, the way of wisdom, the way of the warrior (force), the way of the truth (truth seeker) etc. etc.
Each way is a wide infinite avenue to the sun (divinity).
Each person has a way and that is why it is so important that everyone studies these values or ways so that they can go quicker to their interior Divinity.
What is inside greed and gluttony? Great values hide inside each of these two defects?
The two sides of greed are: on the plus side, it is having an excess beyond what is practically usable (e.g. 200 pairs of shoes), on the negative side, it is not having to the extent of not being practical (e.g. no car, one shirt, one pair of pants, no phone, no fridge etc.).
The middle which is close to the value has to do with the discern and will to know and chose what we need.
There is inner contentment as the value. Often due to some kind of non-acceptance of ourselves or inner lacking we go into greed to get more and more, to compensate for that less. Substituting having for being.
Gluttony, the two sides are: the positive - over eating and drinking. The negative side - suffering because of missing out.
The value starts in the middle of these two extremes. Which is to take advantage of what comes our way in balance. To be fulfilled, satisfied and in control of ourselves make the most of the opportunity in a balanced an internal way. We need concentration and self-control to do this.
These defects are what manage knowing, being and having. We relate to these three principles through these two egos and other egos as well such as pride and lust.
In many ways our P.P.P (often pride) uses these defects to enhance either one of the three: knowing, being or having.
In many ways these egos can compensate for certain lacks.
The person who eats too much is compensating for a lack of control or lack of satisfaction and fulfilment in some important area of his or her life.
The person who is greedy is compensating for a lack of power of something that is rightfully theirs to have dominion over in their life.
Greed takes much from others. Unity is something within greed. The opposite of greed is to consider unity. No one can satisfy their greed without the help of others.
Generosity is a counter-measure to greed. Also greed forgets what we give to others will come back to us.
Greed is not really about money, time and things it is about the heart. About how closed the heart has become.
Gluttony is a sign that something is bothering us emotionally. We have to sit with gluttony and discover what is behind it.
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It's really worth teaching ourselves to how concentrate. Try not to delay that.
As we are learning to concentrate, we face what is 'unconcentrated' in us, and what does not want to concentrate.
A big unconcentrated element within us, is the constant 'attending to desires'.
Lust is an ego within us that is about 'attending to desire'.
Lust in its nature jumps towards the new and the different in the external.
For lust to concentrate in on one person, means its death. Because it is in lust's very nature to look superficially at a person then move on towards new and different sensations.
To concentrate in a person, allows us to see into the depths of the person to find their essence. In sacrificing lust, we find the essence in a person, which then allows us to see the essence in others.
The many different desires of pleasant experience in matter come from the defect of lust in general, even if it is not sexual in nature.
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When a person is vindictive they are really saying look how much you hurt me. The more vindictive, the more they were hurt. They are trying to inflict what was inflicted upon them.
However, vindictiveness appears aggressive and not at all like they are saying: "look how much I am hurt".
Because of that we react with like aggression and things quickly get worse.
In this case like nearly every other case, aggression is not the way to deal with vindictiveness.
Addressing what has been hurt is the closer to the right way or is the right tool. Aggression is the wrong tool.
We have to have lots of self-control to read the strange yet very overlooked message of vindictiveness.
End (5651).
In myth and legend, if we look at the dragons of the East and the West we see a clear difference.
The difference being, that the dragons of the west appear malevolent while those of the East appear benevolent - the opposite.
The dragons of the west were not understood by human beings and often feared. They have suffered much at the hands of human beings, and are bitter and resentful, bearing grudges against man and are very destructive, wreaking havoc on towns and villages. They tend to use their powers for more physical human purposes, yet they are wise and magical.
The dragons of the east are wise and kind, and like to be sought for help and advice. They often stand as guardians and custodians of the lakes, rivers, valleys and mountains. They stand as the essence of magic and are in many cases the door ways to mystical knowledge and dimensions.
What both dragons have in common is wisdom and magic. The use of these two attributes differ in the west and the east, according to myth.
East and West always represent a duality, sunrise and sunset, that is the two opposite poles of the one thing. In this respect, the west and east represent the two poles of the dragon. Which are the two poles of the psychological trainer within us: the Typhon Baphomet and Lucifer.
The dragons of the west represent the Typhon, misunderstood, feared and always used wrongly for human advantage, while the dragons of the East represent Lucifer - divine, benevolent, magical, wise and the conferrer of magical power and knowledge.
End (5639).
We all have to some degree that tendency to criticise and critique. The two are different. Critique has good intentions and wishes to provide feedback to improve the efficiency and quality of another person's efforts. There may be some analysis involved and it is done for the betterment of the other person.
Excessive critique can hide some annoyance, attachment, pride or envy...
Criticism on the other hand is often done out of some annoyance, anger or envy.
If we want to get ourselves out of this tendency to criticise, this one key is very useful. It is to always be patient and focus on the result. To do this means to take a big picture or overall view.
Criticism and excessive critique, is so often about the way something is done. If we go to the big picture view of results, we will see that the result is the same - our way or another way, produce the same result.
So often, it is not really correct to upset another person for a few minutes when the result is the same as what we can do.
End (5647).
Every event and circumstance that we pass through, involves a particular quality of our essence.
Our essence is a conglomerate of abilities, values, virtues, powers and faculties.
When we are in particular, event a part of our essence that specialises with that kind of event will come forward within us.
It does not matter if that part of the essence is free or conditioned. It will always come forward.
If an event involves conflict, problems and difficulties, free or conditioned essence come forward within us to help us respond to that situation. If the essence that comes forward is free, it will be force yet if it is conditioned it will be anger.
Therefore, the parts of the essence trapped in each "I" or aggregate, are the parts of the essence that deal with the qualities of the soul that correspond to that ego.
For example, the fraction of essence trapped in anger is made up of the parts of the essence specialising in force. The fraction of the essence trapped in lust are the parts of the essence that have to do with sexuality, love, honesty etc. The fraction of the essence trapped in pride are the parts of the essence that have to do with majesty, balance and dignity.
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I have been observing this coming for a year or two now.
People studying Gnosis feel that Gnosis is too focussed on the negative. Plus there are the many teachings on the end of times which is scary and gloomy.
It feels like people are wanting a revolution to feel the joy within themselves that resides in their Being.
This is true point, there is joy within our essence and Being and it is something that could well have been missing in the way Gnosis has been taught or in the way people have been applying Gnosis.
Gnosis after all is the our own knowledge of our own Inner Being. Whose pursuit is joyful, and yes it is not always easy and requires hard work. But a hard work that is supremely rewarding.
This revolution in Gnosis is currently being expressed in the way of embracing the affirmative psychology of the Being as well as developing the values of the Inner Being to pay our debts and dissolve the "I's" or conditionings that we have.
End (5641).
This post contains some notes about psychological and consequently spiritual values at an introductory level.
Values are something that are inside of us. They are our innate qualities, laws and principles.
They are universal and perennial when they belong to our Inner Being.
We can know that any value is of the Inner Being, that is, it is divine, meaning it is universal and perennial, when if that value were to be absent from the field of life, life would stop.
There are also values within the personality. Which is also our job to know. These values are typically human cultural and society values. There maybe some overlap with perennial spiritual values but this is not often the case.
What is of interest to us are the values of the Inner Being.
Our psychology is made from these values. The main purpose of our psychology is to give these values expression within us – that is inside the human being.
Our psychology is our inner space that we can find here and now.
Within that inner space is where the values are processed.
These values in our psychology are a way of thinking. That way of thinking can be transferred into action here in life. This is how we do the will of the Being.
The values within the Spirit are autonomous sparks of consciousness that form a unity of consciousness made from a multiplicity.
They are also sacredly individual in their importance of expression.
Values are also intimately linked to our identity. The identity that we have is made up of our values.
Values are what is important to us. They are what we are very willing to give our attention to. If we give our attention to something we give our time and energy to it as well as our consciousness and presence.
We can offend someone deeply because of offending one or more of their deepest and dearest values.
Relationships have a lot to do with values. Values that are in common strengthen the relationship and values that differ increase consciousness within the relationship and create other common values.
Each value becomes a way - that is a way to God and a book of teachings. The way of Love and the ways of love, the way of wisdom and it the ways of wisdom etc. etc.
Values are how we know our soul.
Values are at the core of our Being.
Values are the qualities of our Inner Being.
Values are also the functions of our Inner Being.
It is difficult to know our values until they are challenged.
There is a value in each ego that we have. Our work is to find these values at the core of the ego.
Values are present to fulfill a function.
The issue is that the values we all have, have been polarized. That is they have taken on expression in two polarities.
The polarisation of the value is always precisely in duality and relativity. The key is to reverse that conditioning in the right angle and we will have the the value working free within us for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Here are some examples of values inside the different egos. The value is strongly related to the function.
Within pride are the values of dignity, majesty and balance.
Within lust are the values of love, unity and transmutation.
Within laziness are the values of faith.
Within greed is the value of co-operation and sharing.
Within envy is the joy and happiness for others as well as learning.
Within jealousy is the trust in love and the freedom of love.
Within conditioned self-love is the value of love for oneself and one’s Inner Being.
Within self-pity is the value of compassion.
Within anger is force, serenity, meekness and patience.
Within gluttony is the value of completion and excellence.
Within fear is the value of trust and hope.
Within depression is the value of hope.
If we are stuck by any of these inferior emotions or “I’s” say to ourselves: “be the free value within this 'I' which is the remedy!".
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The better thing to do in relation to other people, is to make the internal effort to comprehend them.
Internally we may find ourselves deep in criticism, protest and varying degrees of dislike...
Being stuck in the above things is truly no good for us and others...
To start to change that within ourselves for our benefit, the thing is to try to comprehend the person.
To comprehend a person is very different to criticise and dislike.
We don't need instructions on how to comprehend anyone, just the will to do it is sufficient.
Making the slightest effort to comprehend another person brings enough light to make us feel different and to know that that is the road to take - comprehension.
When we start to travel down the road of comprehension we start to leave behind internal criticism and dislike.
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Being analysed, critiqued and corrected can be difficult to deal with. Over a prolonged time it can create psychological complexes in people.
From the Gnostic point of view it is certainly a tough gymnasium, where a person can learn a few things.
Those things can be some of the following:
• To see ourselves always positively and to see our Inner Being as a legitimate reality that has the wisdom and strength to change. In many ways, the fact that we are present in that gymnasium is because of our Real Being wanting us to learn.
• Seeing ourselves as wrong provoke anger or self-pity. If we keep positive towards ourselves we don't bring anger. From within our essence we don't want to see ourselves as wrong and deeply from within our Being we are not. It is not wrong for the Being to be.
• To support ourselves while keeping open to useful advice will help us change for the better.
• To learn how to form our inner life to see that what is being proposed is good for us, will helps us to become more patient and not feel so uncomfortable during times of criticism.
• Those who criticise us believe that that is what we are doing internally - that is seeing the good in what is being said. The curious thing is that very few people do that while receiving criticism. That is the one special thing that criticism teaches us - to switch quickly to see the good in it and align with it.
• To discern between what is useful and unuseful criticism.
• To learn how to breakdown the pride and step outside of the 'myself'. We do this by letting go of the belief that we should not be corrected at all or corrected even a little, and to align with force that is going to help us change.
• The inner act of aligning our will with something outside of us (beneficial for us), in many ways catapults us outside of the confines of our personality and the 'myself'.
• To remain holding onto our values while transforming criticism into wisdom that enhances our values.
• To see what relatively new values we can develop.
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Will is a tremendous force in everyone. It is the force that keeps us being what we are.
If we change the direction of our will we will be different...
True will is force that frees us and gives us the ability to chose.
The will that we freed from the ego gives us the freedom to choose the free qualities of our Being.
Those with trapped will find it difficult to understand those with true free will.
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It has been taught that the consciousness, that every human being and creature has, comes from the Cosmic Mother.
The Great Wheel of life also known as the Wheel of Samsara and the Great Tree of Life are also forms of the Great Cosmic Mother.
Through the Kundabuffer the serpentine fire of kundalini inverted, we are fascinated and lulled asleep into furthering the purposes of life and nature.
As She created our consciousness and makes our consciousness to sleep, she can also awaken and liberate us.
The Divine Mother, is the engenderer, enslaver and also the awakener and liberator.
As a conclusion, knowing this, it only makes sense to get closer to Her in any way we can. We have to start within ourselves, thinking about her and talking to her. Giving her time and attention - to Her within ourselves.
She won't answer straight away (she might), as She is black (obscure) to the neophyte, but in the silence of our interior - mind and heart, she will speak to us, through the silent feelings of the heart. Which is our heart and Her core chamber.
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Normally, the Kundabuffer in us buffers reality from reaching our psyche.
The kundabuffer does this outside our awareness. We are not too aware of it, but we really can be.
However, in certain cases when the impressions are intense or impactful we need to consciously buffer them.
What I mean by this is to receive the impressions and don't let them pass straight into our psyche.
Hold them off, see what they are about and then kindly pass the messages of the impressions onto our psyche, where it can be transformed.
The ego grabs the impressions because they are not presented nicely and perhaps too quickly. So it is our job and work to take the impressions and tactfully convert them into something kinder for ourselves and in an order or priority.
We always want to them to speak to us kindly even when they are under stress. It is truer that we need to be kind to ourselves rather controlling others to be nice or kind to us.
One way we can be kind to ourselves, which is what our system is really asking us to do. Is to buffer the impressions and relay them to our mind using our consciousness is a slower, calmer and more digested way.
End (5627).
Even though all of us suffer so much we are not really fully aware of the setbacks of suffering.
If we just meditate on the setbacks of suffering, we will find that the knowledge of the setbacks, does not easily surface.
What does come up is how we waste time, waste energy, waste money and waste the time and energy of others...
Those are really only physical things. Realising this we say suffering makes us to feel awful - which is obvious. Then it's difficult to extract more....
But really there is much to discover yet.
How about one setback of suffering to be the loss of light. When we suffer we lose light. When we lose light we lose sight of our Inner Being, the teachings, the values that have always served us, the well-being of others....
The loss of light is one setback of suffering, There are many more that we need to discover adn know to be able to have the light and strength to free ourselves from suffering.
Feelings of ill and contraction follow when we lose light.
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We have to study our "I's" from and with the heart.
Not with the mind!
It is a shift. A worthwhile shift to make. IF we study from the heart we will go deep and we will find joy in it.
We won't get bored, tired or stuck.
To study our "I's" is a work of the heart!
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Using the intellect for everything, one day makes us intellectual.
To be intellectual does not really make us intelligent or smart.
Becoming intellectual makes us, sooner or later, to become empty. The interesting thing is we don't think we are empty, but we feel empty.
There is a good reason behind the feeling of being empty.
The reason is that the intellect gathers, or better said, borrows concepts, information and reasons. It does not generate anything of its own. It simply borrows from others.
After a while of continuously borrowing information and reasons, we end up bankrupting the natural intelligence of our own consciousness. This happens because we stop using our natural intelligence, and our capacity to access our natural intelligence atrophies.
When we stop using our natural intelligence we end up being parrots, empty tin cans making all sorts of sounds that lack substance.
This is very much like the Moon. The intellectual is lunar is nature. With one side visible and the other invisible - unknown and unaware.
When we are intellectual, the borrowing of information turns against us and we don't know it. Using the information in our intellect, we critique and analyse others with the same information we have collected from others.
Being unaware of critiquing using borrowed knowledge us more unaware, and the next step is to critique while being the same.
The constant critiquing makes us to feel 'full' as it is constant. It is a simple compensation. However, by the law of entropy, the critiquing follows the tendency to become negative. Then we slowly start to fill ourselves up with negativity.
By the Law of cause and effect, that inner negativity spills out into our relationships and external life, and still not being aware it, we criticize-blame it on others.
Then one day the karma takes the form of inner bitterness, loneliness and sadness that is really difficult to shift. As the unawareness continues, we feel 'life owes me happiness' and of course life does not deliver, and so we become needy, while still criticising...
The remedy to all of this is to be quiet both outwardly and inwardly and begin to disassemble all that we have borrowed.
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